{"id":56456,"date":"2023-02-09T08:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56456"},"modified":"2023-02-09T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:19:21","slug":"trumps-last-defense-secretary-takes-on-the-american-war-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56456","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s last Defense secretary takes on the \u2018American war machine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Miller, who served as the acting Defense secretary under former President Trump from 2020 to 2021, offers an insight in his new book &#8220;Soldier Secretary&#8221; into the life of an American soldier who rose \u2014 briefly \u2014 to the top of the Pentagon as he grew increasingly resentful of the U.S. military-industrial complex. He writes that it has now become a \u201chydra-headed monster\u201d with \u201cvirtually no brakes on the American war machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Miller is hopeful that the next generation of Americans can shake the U.S. out of foreign entanglements and the idea of policing the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Hill, Miller said there is a pressing need for accountability in the upper ranks of the Pentagon and with military leadership for the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Miller, who served as the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56457,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56456\/revisions\/56457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}