{"id":35845,"date":"2021-08-25T01:56:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/aug\/24\/britains-military-must-learn-from-its-mistakes"},"modified":"2021-08-25T01:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:56:55","slug":"britains-military-must-learn-from-its-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35845","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s military must learn from its mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s armed forces are dodging responsibility for failings in Afghanistan and Iraq, argues <strong>Prof Paul Dixon<\/strong>. <strong>RC Pennington <\/strong>fears military history is doomed to repeat itself.  Plus letters from <strong>Margaret Phelps, Diana Francis<\/strong> and <strong>Jim Golcher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simon Akam is right, the military does want to ignore its failure in Afghanistan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/22\/britain-military-failure-afghanistan-campaign\" title=\"\">Britain\u2019s military will want to ignore its failure in Afghanistan. It must face reality, 22 August<\/a>), but it does so by deflecting responsibility on to the politicians.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a strong reluctance to publish books and articles that are critical of the military, even by those who served. All three books cited by Akam are by journalists who are ex-military.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/aug\/24\/britains-military-must-learn-from-its-mistakes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s armed forces are dodging responsibility for failings in Afghanistan and Iraq, argues Prof Paul Dixon. RC Pennington fears military history is doomed to repeat itself.  Plus letters from Margaret Phelps, Diana Francis and Jim GolcherSimon Akam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,997,405,212,938,441,4,494,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-defence-policy","category-iraq","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35846,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35845\/revisions\/35846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}