{"id":5459,"date":"2015-11-07T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2015-12-22T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T06:43:56","slug":"syria-whats-really-going-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2015\/11\/syria-whats-really-going-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria &#8211; What&#8217;s Really Going to Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"audio_iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/n2qh6-5a0afd?from=yiiadmin&amp;skin=10&amp;postId=5901053&amp;download=0&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;auto=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis is my inaugural podcast. \u00a0I plan on making this a regular feature. \u00a0Generally they will be about current world events and should usually run 10-15 minutes in length. \u00a0The length is because I\u00a0record them in my truck on the way to work so you will hear background noise and probably get to hear me swear at other drivers on occasion. \u00a0Yes, other drivers irritate me as well, especially folks that are in such a hurry they pass unsafely such as on blind curves or inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>I will relate current events to historical antecedents and try to explain my view of how I think the history of various regions plays into the tensions and conflicts of today. \u00a0I will also occasionally engage in geopolitical analysis and fortune telling. \u00a0I call it fortune telling because any prediction of future events looking farther than about ten minutes is bound to be flawed. \u00a0That being said, I am as apt as anyone else to be right and I have on occasion been correct, especially when it comes to Great Power actions.<\/p>\n<p>This first episode is about Syria, specifically where the Syrian Civil War is a and where I thing it is likely to go. \u00a0I hope everyone enjoys it and looks forward to future episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my inaugural podcast. \u00a0I plan on making this a regular feature. \u00a0Generally they will be about current world events and should usually run 10-15 minutes in length. \u00a0The length is because I\u00a0record them in my truck on the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2015\/11\/syria-whats-really-going-to-happen\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,60,1065],"tags":[397,1066,89,206,1067,378],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-events","category-contemporary-wars","category-podcast","tag-middle-east","tag-podcast","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-syrian-civil-war","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}