{"638091":{"#nid":"638091","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The War that Never Was?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/sandy-winnefeld\u0022\u003EAdmiral Sandy Winnefeld (ret.), USN\u003C\/a\u003E, wrote \u0026ldquo;The War that Never Was?\u0026rdquo; For the U.S. Naval Institute. The essay written by Michael J. Morell, who served as acting director and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is part of a series that from frequent contributor about how the next conflict may begin.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFind an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegarding \u0026ldquo;fear\u0026rdquo; as a source of the conflict, we always knew the Chinese Communist Party, as an authoritarian regime, harbored as its principal concern a loss of control over its own population. As the roller coaster year of 2020 dragged into its second half, a resurgence of COVID-19\u0026mdash;this time scattered throughout the country and again initially covered up by the regime\u0026mdash;began to cast real doubt among the Chinese population of the competence of the Party and its leader Xi Jinping.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usni.org\/magazines\/proceedings\/2020\/august\/war-never-was\u0022\u003ERead the article on the U.S. Naval Institute website.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34435","created_gmt":"2020-08-19 18:23:13","changed_gmt":"2020-08-19 18:23:33","author":"jpalacios9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"DLT","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.usni.org\/magazines\/proceedings\/2020\/august\/war-never-was","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"293511":{"id":"293511","type":"image","title":"Admiral James \u0022Sandy\u0022 Winnefeld","body":null,"created":"1449244313","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:51:53","changed":"1475894991","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:51","alt":"Admiral James \u0022Sandy\u0022 Winnefeld","file":{"fid":"199306","name":"adm_winnefeld.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/adm_winnefeld_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/adm_winnefeld_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2034662,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/adm_winnefeld_0.jpg?itok=qeTkMuyo"}}},"media_ids":["293511"],"groups":[{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"185606","name":"china-taiwan conflict"},{"id":"10986","name":"Chinese Economy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}