{"id":4591,"date":"2010-01-13T14:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2010-01-13T14:12:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:12:42","slug":"the-value-of-military-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4591","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Military Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2233725\/pagenum\/all\/\">Reviewing the new history of the Civil War by John Keegan<\/a>, the eminent military historian of World War II, for <em>Slate<\/em>, Daniel W. Blight observes that some of Keegan&#8217;s key insights come from parallels he finds with World War II:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He invokes World War II as well, noting that Antietam was bloodier than D-Day or Iwo Jima, and reflects that Winston Churchill, an experienced soldier, declined in effectiveness as his war ensued, while Lincoln, a &#8220;military innocent,&#8221; learned and grew in ability as commander in chief as his war enveloped him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a fascinating historical judgment by Keegan &#8211; and one that my lesser knowledge of history also supports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewing the new history of the Civil War by John Keegan, the eminent military historian of World War II, for Slate, Daniel W. Blight observes that some of Keegan&#8217;s key insights come from parallels he finds with World War II: He invokes World War II as well, noting that Antietam was bloodier than D-Day or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[944,2509,2511,2510,76,942,1810],"class_list":["post-4591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-civil-war","tag-daniel-w-blight","tag-john-keegan","tag-slate","tag-winston-churchill","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1c3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}