Stage of warfare

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/12/2012 04:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The UN now terms the situation in Syria a "civil war."
>
>What changed, or when, I can't say.

Yesterday or today, obviously.  :-)

Joel


>JL
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>On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > To be honest, I'm more concerned about incongruous serialization
> > (whatever it's called). I don't see the two actions as being alike
> > enough to warrant serializing them.
> >
> >     VS-)
> >
> > On 6/8/2012 6:32 AM, David Barnhart wrote:
> > > The CNN article this morning says:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Syria is engaging in crimes against humanity and drifting closer to a
> > civil
> > > war."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a scale of events that measures when unrest finally becomes
> > war?  I
> > > would have called what's happening in Syria as Civil War some time ago.
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> > > Regards,
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> > > David
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