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_alxk | 3 years ago

The "war on terror", like the "war on drugs", is a misnomer though; it's not really a war (although a couple of wars were waged as part of it, or alongside it).

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RandomLensman|3 years ago

Fair enough. WW1 spawned things like DORA in the UK, for example.

Edit: And WW2 saw another massive increase of the "state", so not sure war does generally shrink administrative systems.

inglor_cz|3 years ago

If you lose the war decisively, you have a chance to rebuild the state from scratch, including the legal system.

As a winner, though, you face the task of trying to shrink an administrative system that just won a war.