{"id":6201,"date":"2016-10-24T14:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/24\/do-away-with-all-volunteer-military\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:53:54","slug":"do-away-with-all-volunteer-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/do-away-with-all-volunteer-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Away With All-Volunteer Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27756\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27756\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27756 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/2016-Akan-Malici-headshot-portrait-400-wide-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Akan Malici\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 222px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 222\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Akan Malici<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University Political Science Professor Dr. Akan Malici believes our nation is desensitized to the idea of war. He claims that post Vietnam, the dissolution of the citizen-soldier in favor of an\u00a0all-volunteer force has resulted in a war-prone posture for the United States where America&#8217;s military has become Washington&#8217;s military.\u00a0In an a commentary he wrote for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2016\/10\/23\/commentary-do-away-all-volunteer-military\/91987974\/\">The Greenville News<\/a>, Malici says in order to fend off the misuse of power, the citzen-soldier must be reclaimed, &#8220;&#8230;\u00a0only when the citizenry at large will have its &#8216;skin in the game,&#8217; will it hold the government accountable and ask the relevant questions about the actual necessity for war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Political Science Professor Dr. Akan Malici believes our nation is desensitized to the idea of war. He claims that post Vietnam, the dissolution of the citizen-soldier in favor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":16326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}