{"id":9542,"date":"2026-08-15T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=9542"},"modified":"2026-08-17T06:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:05:53","slug":"9542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/15\/9542\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in the stories of the Lincoln carrier is this quote, regarding the targeted use of the types of munitions of which we have ample supply against the smaller targets that make a difference.\u00a0 \u201cCooper has advocated for a more forceful response to Iran\u2019s attacks in recent weeks, pushing to go beyond the smaller retaliatory airstrikes that have done little to deter Tehran from threatening ships in the Strait of Hormuz and lobbing missiles at American forces in the region, The Wall Street Journal has reported.\u201d\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-war-commander-visits-the-uss-abraham-lincoln-ece7a4da\">\u201cIran War Commander Visits the USS Abraham Lincoln,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 8-15-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in the stories of the Lincoln carrier is this quote, regarding the targeted use of the types of munitions of which we have ample supply against the smaller targets that make a difference.\u00a0 \u201cCooper has advocated for a more forceful response to Iran\u2019s attacks in recent weeks, pushing to go beyond the smaller retaliatory &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2026\/08\/15\/9542\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9544,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions\/9544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}