{"id":35159,"date":"2013-04-17T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35159"},"modified":"2013-04-17T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:07:28","slug":"more-troops-to-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35159","title":{"rendered":"More Troops to Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SECDEF has apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/04\/17\/world\/us-jordan-troops-order\/\">ordered the deployment of 200 additional US troops to Jordan<\/a>.\u00a0 The troops will come from the HQ of the 1st Armored Division, and will apparently be heavy on communications and intelligence support personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The reason given by a Pentagon spokesman for the deployment of additional forces is to (1) assist the Jordanian military, and (2) &#8220;be ready for military action&#8221; should that be ordered by the POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this is just the Pentagon erring on the side of caution.\u00a0 But as I&#8217;ve said before about the US and Syria:\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a bad feeling about this . . . . &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SECDEF has apparently ordered the deployment of 200 additional US troops to Jordan.\u00a0 The troops will come from the HQ of the 1st Armored Division, and will apparently be heavy on communications and intelligence support personnel. The reason given by a Pentagon spokesman for the deployment of additional forces is to (1) assist the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-995","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}