{"id":125320,"date":"2023-12-15T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125320"},"modified":"2023-12-16T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T12:48:00","slug":"tvp-world-european-militaries-increasingly-reporting-seriously-depleted-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125320","title":{"rendered":"(TVP World) European militaries increasingly reporting seriously depleted resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain, a principal ally of the U.S. military and the largest defense spender in Europe, has limited military resources with only about 150 operational tanks and around a dozen long-range artillery pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the scarcity of equipment was so acute that the British military contemplated refurbishing rocket launchers from museums for Ukraine, but this plan was abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>France, another major defense spender in Europe, possesses less than 90 heavy artillery units, roughly the amount Russia reportedly loses each month in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark lacks heavy artillery, submarines, or air defense systems. The German army is reported to have sufficient ammunition for only two days of combat<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvpworld.com\/74722134\/european-militaries-increasingly-reporting-seriously-depleted-resources\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">European militaries increasingly reporting seriously depleted resources. The EU has been freeriding on US defense spending for decades [they have none of the major defense contractors &amp; Lockheed, RTX &amp; Northrup stand to be big winners in their rearmament] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IR1hhuFMv4\">https:\/\/t.co\/IR1hhuFMv4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2L9tUwjLfK\">pic.twitter.com\/2L9tUwjLfK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cate Long (@cate_long) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cate_long\/status\/1735665186739036607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain, a principal ally of the U.S. military and the largest defense spender in Europe, has limited military resources with only about 150 operational tanks and around a dozen long-range artillery pieces. Last year, the scarcity of equipment was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125320\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,200,144,106,151,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-politics-in-general","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125324,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125320\/revisions\/125324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}