{"id":2193,"date":"2007-04-11T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2007-04-11T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T15:38:00","slug":"2193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>WORTH A LOOK<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/12350000\/12352596.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I did a focused skim British Army <strong>General<\/strong> <strong>Rupert Smith&#8217;s<\/strong> memoir , <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780307265623&#038;displayonly=CHP&amp;z=y\">The Utility of Force<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Smith deals in detail with scenarios that readers here would recognize as &#8220;<strong>System Administration<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>4GW<\/strong>&#8220;, though Smith uses neither of those terms. Smith also understands that war is no longer compartmentalized but is part of a seamless arc of conflict going on at multiple levels. Interview video clip of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/video\/2816076\/show\/17676\">General Smith talking to Jon Stewart here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WORTH A LOOK A few days ago, I did a focused skim British Army General Rupert Smith&#8217;s memoir , The Utility of Force. Smith deals in detail with scenarios that readers here would recognize as &#8220;System Administration&#8221; and &#8220;4GW&#8220;, though Smith uses neither of those terms. Smith also understands that war is no longer compartmentalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,102,39,265,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4gw","category-diplomacy","category-military","category-rupert-smith","category-system-administration","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}