{"id":261108,"date":"2016-08-11T06:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T06:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=261108"},"modified":"2016-10-18T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:45:55","slug":"britain-not-officially-war-fully-engaged-front-line-deadly-war-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/britain-not-officially-war-fully-engaged-front-line-deadly-war-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain Not Officially At War But Fully Engaged On The Front-line Of Deadly War Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <em><a href=\"http:\/\/truepublica.org.uk\/contributors\/graham-vanbergen\/\">Graham Vanbergen<\/a><\/em> \u2013 \u201c<strong>We do not disclose details of all ongoing operations, (says the MoD), as disclosure would prejudice the security of the Armed Forces<\/strong>.\u201d This is the stock answer given to any journalist attempting to enquire why it is that Britain is officially not at war with any country yet combat troops, special forces, fighter bombers and killer\u00a0drones operate as though the opposite was\u00a0true.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, as parliament was asked to approve military deployment in Libya, William Hague, Secretary of State at the time, promised that the government would \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicshome.com\/news\/uk\/defence\/house\/74349\/emily-thornberry-end-democratic-deficit-british-military-action\">enshrine in law<\/a> for the future the necessity of consulting parliament on military action\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This was supposedly to be an historic pledge \u2013 the first time the House of Commons\u2019 role in the very serious\u00a0decisions the government takes on war and peace was to be formalised. Clearly, there was no appetite for world peace. Frenzied lobbyists for weapons manufacturers got to work, soon after, members of parliament whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2001\/jun\/24\/uk.houseofcommons\">pensions depend in part on war<\/a> dropped Hague\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, thousands of British servicemen and women are now serving in some of the world\u2019s most dangerous war zones against countries we are not at war with, and all without the consent of the British people. Much of the mainstream media will have you believe that parliament is being left in the dark when it comes to British troops in active service in dangerous\u00a0war-zones such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/the-british-government-was-left-in-the-dark-during-the-ukraine-crisis-because-its-diplomats-can-t-10075337.html\">HERE<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/mar\/25\/sas-deployed-libya-start-year-leaked-memo-king-abdullah\">HERE<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/jun\/06\/senior-mp-crispin-blunt-not-concerned-surprised-report-uk-special-forces-in-syria\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonspace.scot\/articles\/3541\/uk-military-minister-accused-bypassing-parliament-over-libya-bombing\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0but as you will read, this article is made up entirely of media reports that members of parliament can read can for themselves.<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel panel-default\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/truepublica.org.uk\/united-kingdom\/britain-not-officially-war-fully-engaged-front-line-deadly-war-zones\/\">Read More..<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Graham Vanbergen \u2013 \u201cWe do not disclose details of all ongoing operations, (says the MoD), as disclosure would prejudice the security of the Armed Forces.\u201d This is the stock answer given to any journalist attempting to enquire why it is that Britain is officially not at war with any country yet combat troops, special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2183,"featured_media":261109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,519],"tags":[71,38,882,754,523,1235],"class_list":{"0":"post-261108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-afghanistan","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-libya","12":"tag-syria","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}