{"id":1719,"date":"2008-04-19T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-04-19T18:51:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T18:51:30","slug":"read_this_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"Read This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kingsofwar.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/18\/new-media-and-war-propaganda-by-deed-and-the-virtual-dimension\/\" target=\"browser\">Kings of War<\/a> posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/virtual-dimension-of-contemporary-insurgency-and-counterinsurgency.pdf\">a brilliant paper<\/a> (pdf) by Professor David Betz on &#8216;The Virtual Dimension of Contemporary Insurgency and Counterinsurgency&#8217;. I&#8217;ll have a lot more to say about the paper next week (my initial reactions are that it obviously ties to Western self-abnegation, and that the issue of the relative attitudes toward violence &#8211; they video violence and see it as self-affirming, we video violence and see it as an immoral admission of failure), but you should for sure read it.<\/p>\n<p>I brought a copy over here to download because I didn&#8217;t want to burn KoW&#8217;s bandwidth; if they (or anyone else) thinks that&#8217;s inappropriate, please speak up in comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great paper on the virtual aspects of the insurgency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}