Civil War is Coming…

…According to Prof. David Betz, Professor of War in the Department of War Studies at King's College London

Peter Whittle of The New Culture Forum interviews Prof. David Betz, Professor of War in the Department of War Studies at King's College London where he heads the MA War Studies programme. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Prof. Betz's most recent book, The Guarded Age: Fortification in the 21st Century, is published by Polity.

Professor Betz sets out the conditions which lead to civil war and how these apply to the UK. The initial phase is low-level conflict in the urban conurbations which will, in time, spread to the rural areas. A condition of distrust and factional polarisation overlaid on other social ills and the emergence of a nativist identity movement as a counter position. The major concern is that Islamism is ultimately an extremist minority within a minority and that there is potential for a majority backlash of the nativist group leading to a classical insurgency model and a volatile future.