{"id":334,"date":"2010-07-13T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T00:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2023-01-29T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:12:21","slug":"rise-of-terrorism-due-to-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/rise-of-terrorism-due-to-un\/","title":{"rendered":"rise of terrorism due to UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20727684.700-you-cant-fight-violence-with-violence.html\">New Scientist: You can&#8217;t fight violence with violence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This does not explain the success of achieving the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany in WW2. I believe the rise of terrorism as a successful strategy for insurgency is due primarily to the rules of war promoted by the UN, which forbid the targeting of civilians. Surrender in war is not a military outcome; it is a political one. Without the civilian population being faced with total annihilation, there is no reason to surrender, and resistance by this protected class can continue indefinitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist: You can&#8217;t fight violence with violence This does not explain the success of achieving the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany in WW2. I believe the rise of terrorism as a successful strategy for insurgency is due primarily to the rules of war promoted by the UN, which forbid the targeting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/rise-of-terrorism-due-to-un\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">rise of terrorism due to UN<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-terrorism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eKak-5o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}