{"id":2590,"date":"2008-02-09T05:19:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T05:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2008-02-09T05:19:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T05:19:32","slug":"if-we-can-keep-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"If We Can Keep It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/book-photo.jpg\" title=\"book-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/book-photo.jpg\" alt=\"book-photo.jpg\" \/><\/a>I just received my review copy of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1932019316?tag=zenpundit-20&amp;camp=15041&amp;creative=373501&amp;link_code=as3\"><strong><em>If We Can Keep It: A National Security Manifesto for the Next Administration<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by <strong>Dr. Chet Richards<\/strong> ( thanks Chet!).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I will tackle this book and write a proper review once the Osinga Roundtable comes to a close but in casually\u00a0flipping through the pages just now, I can say that it is tightly written and that Dr. Richards was\u00a0unsparing in asking tough questions about the geopolitical-military subjects that interest many readers here. We&#8217;ll have to see if his answers are as radical as those he offered in his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Shall-Sword-Conflict-Years\/dp\/193201926X\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1202534000&amp;sr=1-2\">previous work<\/a>. Looks quite\u00a0good though.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received my review copy of If We Can Keep It: A National Security Manifesto for the Next Administration by Dr. Chet Richards ( thanks Chet!).\u00a0 I will tackle this book and write a proper review once the Osinga Roundtable comes to a close but in casually\u00a0flipping through the pages just now, I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,60,39,340,270,131,127,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chet-richards","category-dni","category-military","category-military-reform","category-national-security","category-security","category-strategy","category-theory","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}