{"id":732,"date":"2004-05-18T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2004-05-18T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-18T02:05:00","slug":"732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>TERROR, ASYMMETRY AND ETHICS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy has a short post about a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/story\/cms.php?story_id=2144\">Journal of Military Ethics that contains an article that examines the shifting moral obligations and legal obligations of soldiers engaged in asymmetric wars and ill-defined humanitarian missions that involve force projection.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States is going to be positioned to face primarily asymmetric threats for a long time to come. Many states will either sponsor such non-state actor threats indirectly or in the case Russia, China and the EU core- exert diplomatic pressure to try to force the US to accept the asymmetric conflict under the most disadvantageous international law restrictions possible. Sort of a reverse Containment enacted via lawyers, diplomats, journalists and NGO activists. <\/p>\n<p>The United States needs to raise the costs of asymmetric warfare  for its supporters even as it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/mason\/stories\/WO0307\/S00012.htm\">counters the strategy of the International Law expansionists<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TERROR, ASYMMETRY AND ETHICS Foreign Policy has a short post about a new Journal of Military Ethics that contains an article that examines the shifting moral obligations and legal obligations of soldiers engaged in asymmetric wars and ill-defined humanitarian missions that involve force projection. The United States is going to be positioned to face primarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}