{"id":11701,"date":"2014-11-13T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11701"},"modified":"2014-11-13T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T12:54:56","slug":"what-it-costs-to-fight-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/what-it-costs-to-fight-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Costs To Fight ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/111314_1252_WhatItCosts1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Uri Friedman took a look at the money being ponied up by the US in the fight against the group commonly known as ISIS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first airstrikes against ISIS began roughly 100 days ago, and the US has spent about $800 million on the campaign.<\/li>\n<li>This comes out to $8 million a day, or $300,000 an hour to fight the extremist group in Iraq and Syria.<\/li>\n<li>This is a bargain compared to the $200 million a day that the US spent during its 13 year campaign in Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<li>Analysts note that if the US wants to destroy rather than merely degrade the terrorist group it will have to massively expand its military and financial commitment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the confusion over when the battle against ISIS truly began, different ISIS battle scenarios, and difficult questions facing the American government <a href=\"http:\/\/a.msn.com\/r\/2\/AA7P6uT?a=1&amp;m=en-us\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/a.msn.com\/r\/2\/AA7P6uT?a=1&amp;m=en-us\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uri Friedman took a look at the money being ponied up by the US in the fight against the group commonly known as ISIS: The first airstrikes against ISIS began roughly 100 days ago, and the US has spent about $800 million on the campaign. This comes out to $8 million a day, or $300,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/111314_1252_WhatItCosts1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11703,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions\/11703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}