{"id":19425,"date":"2023-04-21T15:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/abrams-tanks-will-make\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:35:37","slug":"abrams-tanks-will-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/abrams-tanks-will-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams tanks will make difference in Ukraine war but no silver bullet: US general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) &#8211;     The U.S. decision to provide Ukraine with 31 advanced M1A2 Abrams tanks will make a difference in the war but is no silver bullet, U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Milley&#8217;s remarks came as the United States announced that Abrams tanks to be used to train the Ukrainians will arrive in Germany in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m biased, but I think the M1 tank&#8217;s the best tank in the world &#8230; I do think the M1 tank, when it is delivered, will make a difference,&#8221; Milley, the top U.S. general, said after a meeting of Ukraine&#8217;s allies at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.    &#8220;But I would also caution there&#8217;s no silver bullet in war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Phil Stewart)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/abrams-tanks-will-make\/a-u-s-army-m1a2-abrams-tank-fires-during-u-s-led\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0KU-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0KU-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. decision to provide Ukraine with 31 advanced M1A2 Abrams tanks will make a difference in the war but is no silver bullet, U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Friday. Milley&#8217;s remarks came as the United States announced that Abrams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-top-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K0KU-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19427,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425\/revisions\/19427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}