The reality of today's world is dauntingly complex and not amenable to the kind of simplistic one-at-a-time "war as entertainment" reporting that the Media has learned to dispense, nor to the narrowly-focused intelligence production process that tailors its daily production to only the President and a few others, while creating massive generic databases of classified information that do little to address the specific needs of action officers across all of the departments and agencies of government.
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Not a day goes by without news reaching us of conflicts in our immediate or wider surroundings that can accurately only be described as war. War can be understood as a Conflict in which the parties involved risk their survival.