{"id":12845,"date":"2016-03-08T06:39:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T12:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12845"},"modified":"2016-03-08T06:39:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T12:39:30","slug":"what-the-2016-presidential-candidates-get-wrong-about-the-future-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/08\/what-the-2016-presidential-candidates-get-wrong-about-the-future-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"What the 2016 Presidential Candidates Get Wrong About the Future of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12846\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/defense-large.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"defense-large\" width=\"620\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They fail, they lack, they misunderstand, they pander, they don\u2019t get, and they just don\u2019t know national security \u2013 not according to our Future of War roster of experts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe President shall be Commander in\u00a0Chief\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"d1-inline-subscribe-container newsletter\">\n<h3 class=\"d1-inline-subscribe-title\"><\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"d1-author-bio-container\">\n<p class=\"d1-author-bio-text\">This clause that leads Article Two, Section <span class=\"caps\">II<\/span> of the <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> Constitution is without a doubt the most important of the executive powers granted to the president by the Founding Fathers. But as today\u2019s crop of presidential candidates seek that job, do they really understand the issues that await them tomorrow when it comes to the future of\u00a0war?<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If history is any guide, the answer is no. When George Washington took the oath of office for the first time, he didn\u2019t expect he\u2019d soon be leading a force of some 13,000 troops into Western Pennsylvania to put down the Whiskey Rebellion (the first and last time the president served as a commander in chief in the field). Abraham Lincoln, at his inauguration, expected conflict was on the way, as seven Southern states already had seceded since his election. But no one expected the Civil War would last four more years and introduce industrialized warfare. More recently, George W. Bush entered office lamenting \u201cnation building\u201d and would leave it presiding over two massive nation-building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In turn, Barack Obama pledged to responsibly end America\u2019s involvements in these wars. He will leave office not only with forces still there, but also having commanded air and drone war campaigns in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, and\u00a0Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>The Future of War project is a joint effort of New America and Arizona State, in partnership with <em>Defense One<\/em>, that brings together a diverse group of experts, whose backgrounds range from Navy SEALs and scientists to historians, journalists, and lawyers. As a lead up to the project\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/futureofwar.newamerica.org\/\">\u201cFuture of War\u201d conference<\/a> on Mar. 10\u2014which you can livestream <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2016\/03\/livestream-future-war-conference-2016\/126406\/\">here<\/a>\u2014we asked\u00a0them:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>What do the 2016 presidential candidates get most wrong about the\u00a0#FutureofWar?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their answers covered areas that ranged from strategy to terrorism, but a theme that cut through was the need to be honest to the American people, and themselves, about what awaits. In an age of <span class=\"caps\">TV<\/span> soundbites and Twitter trolling, let\u2019s hope that whoever wins the upcoming election is the exception to the rule that presidential candidates just don\u2019t get the Future of\u00a0War.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2016\/03\/what-2016-presidential-candidates-get-wrong-about-future-war\/126478\/?oref=defenseone_today_nl\">Defense One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They fail, they lack, they misunderstand, they pander, they don\u2019t get, and they just don\u2019t know national security \u2013 not according to our Future of War roster of experts. \u201cThe President shall be Commander in\u00a0Chief\u2026\u201d This clause that leads Article Two, Section II of the U.S. Constitution is without a doubt the most important of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,1583,1704,5072,3140,74,2086,883,4479,4333,2378,1814,1286,2820,3563,2426,1189,1894,4418,17,65,272,3321,1898],"tags":[2779,5274,2277,5275],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}