{"id":454714,"date":"2018-03-20T09:38:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T13:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2fe9aeea2fb739da262b3efebab1c9c4"},"modified":"2018-03-20T09:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T13:38:49","slug":"why-the-face-of-western-war-gives-us-a-false-idea-of-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=454714","title":{"rendered":"Why the face of Western war gives us a false idea of conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US-led global coalition fighting Islamic State has, with success, robbed the terrorist movement of its territorial safe havens. But when it comes to facing war&#8217;s brutal nature, the West fumbles the football. It habitually reports (close to) zero civilian casualties from its actions, which is questionable. It should be a cause of reflection on why Western societies believe war can be painless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US-led global coalition fighting Islamic State has, with success, robbed the terrorist movement of its territorial safe havens. But when it comes to facing war&#8217;s brutal nature, the West fumbles the football. It habitually reports (close to) zero ci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454715,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454714\/revisions\/454715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}