{"id":416,"date":"2014-10-22T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=416"},"modified":"2014-10-22T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:10:09","slug":"the-us-cant-outsource-warfighting-the-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"The US Can\u2019t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2014\/10\/the-us-cant-outsource-warfighting\/\">The US Can\u2019t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">America has hung out a shingle: HELP WANTED. Offshore powers \u2014 powers beset by few if any overland threats \u2014 habitually do. But good help doesn\u2019t come cheap, in world politics as in private industry. One hopes Washington gets this as it tries to accomplish big things while slashing the resources needed to fulfill its purposes. Simply appealing to mutual interests is not enough to marshal and sustain multinational enterprises. Deeds \u2014 and resources devoted to the common cause \u2014 speak louder than words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Look back to look ahead. In its imperial heyday, not-yet-weary titan Great Britain was constantly on the lookout for a \u201ccontinental sword\u201d to project force onto faraway shores. Finding capable land allies would spare London the need to raise and maintain large standing armies. Prussia\u2019s King Frederick the Great, for instance, acted as Britain\u2019s continental sword during the Seven Years\u2019 War (1756-1763), known in these parts as the French and Indian War.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The theory underlying such arrangements was simple: Britannia ruled the waves, so British industries and merchantmen could carry on overseas commerce with little fear of interference. Commerce sluiced tariff revenue into the imperial treasury, providing kings and prime ministers the wherewithal to finance continental allies\u2019 martial efforts. Everyone\u2019s happy, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Can\u2019t Outsource Warfighting | The Diplomat. America has hung out a shingle: HELP WANTED. Offshore powers \u2014 powers beset by few if any overland threats \u2014 habitually do. But good help doesn\u2019t come cheap, in world politics as in private industry. One hopes Washington gets this as it tries to accomplish big things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[259,834,862,865],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-empire","tag-us","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}