{"id":36647,"date":"2016-12-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36647"},"modified":"2016-12-13T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T19:06:27","slug":"qotd-getting-nato-nations-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/24\/qotd-getting-nato-nations-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Getting NATO nations&#8217; attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How to make some NATO members move in the right direction? Here&#8217;s an idea. Let me pull one of my &#8220;NATO Motivator&#8221; concepts out of my goodie-bag.<\/p>\n<p>You learn quickly in NATO that one of the most critical and important things to many in the alliance is a thing called Flags-to-Post.<\/p>\n<p>It is when NATO decides which nations will get which senior uniformed and senior civilian adviser billets. Trust me on this; the conflict in AFG, refugee crisis, etc &#8211; none of that stuff goes in front of anything related to Flags to Post.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to bring attention to the &#8220;Press allies on defense spending&#8221; point, do this; the minute an Estonian General (pop. 1.3 million, percent of GDP on defense, 2.04%) take a position usually held by say, a Belgian General (pop. 11.2 million, percent of GDP on defense, 1.05%), then you will get people&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>Just an idea.<\/p>\n<p>CDR Salamander, <a href=\"https:\/\/cdrsalamander.blogspot.ca\/2016\/11\/make-nato-great-again.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Make NATO Great Again&#8221;, <em>CDR Salamander<\/em><\/a>, 2016-11-14.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to make some NATO members move in the right direction? Here&#8217;s an idea. Let me pull one of my &#8220;NATO Motivator&#8221; concepts out of my goodie-bag. You learn quickly in NATO that one of the most critical and important things to many in the alliance is a thing called Flags-to-Post. It is when NATO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[62,5,41,13],"tags":[432,755,572,220],"class_list":["post-36647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-military","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-diplomacy","tag-incentives","tag-leadership","tag-nato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9x5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36648,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647\/revisions\/36648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}