{"id":5652,"date":"2010-06-09T00:25:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T06:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2010-06-08T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T04:52:07","slug":"the-us-army-and-god-willing-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/the-us-army-and-god-willing-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Army and &#8220;God willing&#8221; in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing a military award,\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/05\/26\/39795-pace-award-honors-standouts-at-army-headquarters\/\">US\u00a0Army article makes note<\/a> of what is sometimes believed to be a pejorative view of the Afghan army, or Islamic militaries in general.\u00a0 LtCol James Boozell wrote &#8220;a national strategic vision while in Afghanistan,&#8221; at the request of the Afghan government:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said the Afghan minister of defense asked for help in crafting a transformational goal for the future of the Afghan National Army, and Boozell rose to the task.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly,\u00a0it was the Afghan minister of defense, not Boozell, who<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>wanted Afghan soldiers to&#8230;do away with an &#8220;Insha&#8217;Allah,&#8221; or &#8220;God-willing&#8221; attitude when tasks got too hard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The implications of this attitude\u00a0to the military profession\u00a0were <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/14\/military-aviation-god-willing\/\">previously discussed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing a military award,\u00a0a US\u00a0Army article makes note of what is sometimes believed to be a pejorative view of the Afghan army, or Islamic militaries in general.\u00a0 LtCol James Boozell wrote &#8220;a national strategic vision while in Afghanistan,&#8221; at the request of the Afghan government:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,88,44,2,10],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}