Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Read the Old Testament.\u00a0 War was constant in ancient times, tribe against tribe.<\/p>\n
Read Medieval history.\u00a0 War was constant in Medieval times, family against family.<\/p>\n
The Treaty of Westphalia, signed in 1658, nationalized war.\u00a0 From that point on, \u201cwar\u201d could only be conducted by nations.\u00a0 All other violent conflict was \u201ccrime.\u201d<\/p>\n
We\u2019re still operating under that intellectual framework.\u00a0 President Obama doesn\u2019t consider terrorism to be \u201cwar\u201d because it\u2019s not being waged by a distinct nation.\u00a0 It\u2019s just \u201ccrime.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s why he sent the FBI to investigate the Benghazi consulate bombing \u2013 to look for clues so they could prosecute the criminals who blew it up and murdered our ambassador.<\/p>\n
At some point, we need to shed our antique notion.\u00a0 Military historian William Lind theorizes war has moved into a new generation characterized by smaller groups loosely affiliated in furtherance of a long-term goal.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what Belgium looks like to me.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what war looks like today.<\/p>\n
Joe doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The good news: \u00a0we’ll never see another World War 2 again.<\/p>\n
The bad news: \u00a0we’ll never see another World War 2 again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Read the Old Testament.\u00a0 War was constant in ancient times, tribe against tribe. Read Medieval history.\u00a0 War was constant in Medieval times, family against family. The Treaty of Westphalia, signed in 1658, nationalized war.\u00a0 From that point on, \u201cwar\u201d could only be conducted by nations.\u00a0 All other violent conflict […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58089,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088\/revisions\/58089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}