{"id":2613,"date":"2008-02-26T05:05:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T05:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2008-02-26T05:05:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T05:05:35","slug":"is-there-any-longer-a-clear-distincion-between-being-at-war-and-not-being-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Is there any longer a clear distincion between being at war and not being at war?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/\">Lexington Green<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Our British friends have become alarmed at self-radicalization of British Muslims juxtaposed with the &#8220;uncertainty&#8221;effect of the EU\u00a0on the national security of the U.K. and the moral malaise of the British elite. The RUSI <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rusi.org\/downloads\/assets\/Prins_and_Salisbury_RUSI_Journal_FEB08.pdf\"><strong>Risk, Threat and Security: The case of the United Kingdom <\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(PDF) outlines a scenario where a situation recognizable as 4GW, a situation that if left unchecked, imperils primary loyalty to the British Crown.<\/p>\n<p>The authors, who include <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rupert_Smith\">General Sir Rupert Smith<\/a><\/strong>, are UK heavyweights and this document has the air of a call to arms reminiscent of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X_Article\">Kennan&#8217;s X Article <\/a>or the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/history1900s.about.com\/library\/weekly\/aa082400a.htm\">Iron Curtain speech<\/a>. Fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Lexington Green: Our British friends have become alarmed at self-radicalization of British Muslims juxtaposed with the &#8220;uncertainty&#8221;effect of the EU\u00a0on the national security of the U.K. and the moral malaise of the British elite. The RUSI Risk, Threat and Security: The case of the United Kingdom \u00a0(PDF) outlines a scenario where a situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,262,46,37,336,210,66,265,131,11,211,355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-4gw","category-analytic","category-futurism","category-intellectuals","category-islamist","category-primary-loyalties","category-rupert-smith","category-security","category-state-building","category-terrorism","category-uncertainty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","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=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}