{"id":156272,"date":"2026-08-19T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156272"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:00:13","slug":"is-south-china-sea-warship-breakdown-a-sign-us-is-taxing-reserve-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156272","title":{"rendered":"Is South China Sea warship breakdown a sign US is \u2018taxing reserve capacity\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA US guided-missile destroyer that was adrift in the South China Sea without power last month is a sign that America is taxing its reserve capacity as its operation against Iran drags on, according to an analyst.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is an extremely unusual occurrence and a variety of equipment and process failures would have to have taken place,\u201d said Brad Martin, a former US Navy captain who is now a senior policy researcher at Washington-based think tank the Rand Corporation.<br \/>\n\u201cFailures such as this are a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3364528\/south-china-sea-warship-breakdown-sign-us-taxing-reserve-capacity?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA US guided-missile destroyer that was adrift in the South China Sea without power last month is a sign that America is taxing its&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}