{"id":438,"date":"2002-03-14T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2002-03-14T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/14\/afghanistan-tactics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:24:58","slug":"afghanistan-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/14\/afghanistan-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16417,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thetimes.co.uk\\\/article\\\/0,,1164-233669,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thetimes.co.uk\\\/article\\\/0,,1164-233669,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16418,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/15505&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/15505&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t we learn anything from the years the Russians spent trying to fight in Afghanistan? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/0,,1164-233669,00.html\" title=\"Somehow I bet this story wouldn't have appeared in an American paper.\">Apparently not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Hundreds of American troops were pulled out of the ground battle with al-Qaeda forces because they failed to adapt to the guerrilla tactics required for fighting in the mountains, according to their Afghan allies.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Addendum: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/15505\" title=\"Lots of rhetoric, but some good content is buried in there too.\">MetaFilter comments thread<\/a> for this article has some good points, if you can dig through the partisian bickering.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t we learn anything from the years the Russians spent trying to fight in Afghanistan? Apparently not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}