…all the really interesting news items begin to appear.

BBC NEWS | Americas | US military plans for ‘long war’

The US Defence Department has released a long-awaited report on how the US military will organise and equip itself in the face of “new and elusive foes”.
The quadrennial defence review will be presented to the US Congress next week.

The document opens with the words: “The United States is engaged in what will be a long war.”

It describes what the US military must do to defeat current and future enemies – flagged as “rogue powers, terrorist networks and non-state threats”.

Of course. Ooh, what are “non-state threats?” Grieving mothers in T-shirts?