{"id":9980,"date":"2012-11-12T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T10:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9980"},"modified":"2012-11-13T00:08:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T23:08:20","slug":"is-the-united-states-becoming-more-aggressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9980","title":{"rendered":"Is the United States becoming more aggressive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just started reading: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Next-100-Years-George-Friedman\/dp\/0749007435\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1351876310&amp;sr=1-1\">The Next 100 Years&#8221;<\/a> by George Friedman. He admits that: <em>&#8220;The United States is, historically, a warlike country.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Consider these figures in the book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The US has been at war for about 10% of its existence.<\/li>\n<li>During the 20th century, the US was at war 15% of the time.<\/li>\n<li>In the second half of the 20th century, the US was at war 22% of the time.<\/li>\n<li>Since 2001, the US has been constantly at war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friedman comments: <em>&#8220;America was born out of war and has continued to fight to this day at an ever increasing pace.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just started reading: &#8220;The Next 100 Years&#8221; by George Friedman. He admits that: &#8220;The United States is, historically, a warlike country.&#8221; Consider these figures in the book: The US has been at war for about 10% of its existence. During the 20th century, the US was at war 15% of the time. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9980"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9994,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980\/revisions\/9994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}