{"id":90104,"date":"2025-08-25T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90104"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:44:57","slug":"understaffed-german-military-seeks-to-grow-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/understaffed-german-military-seeks-to-grow-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Understaffed German military seeks to grow ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k6bUjqK7sG4eHkDIuyC\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nGermany&#8217;s armed forces remain severely shortstaffed although authorities announced a major military buildup following Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Could bringing back conscription be the answer?<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s armed forces remain severely shortstaffed although authorities announced a major military buildup following Russia&#8217;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Could bringing back conscription be the answer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[38168,38169],"class_list":["post-90104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-german-military","tag-ranks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90106,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90104\/revisions\/90106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}