{"id":50846,"date":"2026-04-18T16:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/as-former-nato-chief-warns-about-defence-spending-how-much-has-the-military-shrunk\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:27:25","slug":"as-former-nato-chief-warns-about-defence-spending-how-much-has-the-military-shrunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/as-former-nato-chief-warns-about-defence-spending-how-much-has-the-military-shrunk\/","title":{"rendered":"As former Nato chief warns about defence spending, how much has the military shrunk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>BBC Verify looks at the size of the UK military after Lord Robertson criticises the government over defence spending.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c6244zqnk16o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Verify looks at the size of the UK military after Lord Robertson criticises the government over defence spending. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[887,2739,532,3077,14690,2052,346],"class_list":["post-50846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-chief","tag-defence","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-shrunk","tag-spending","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50848,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50846\/revisions\/50848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}