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Reflections on the Brussels attack
![Soldiers stand guard in front of the central train station in Brussels. (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)](http://web.archive.org./web/20160329151034im_/http://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/15ebd6bf908ad7d6972727a61f4d9680fd3ab21e-300x200.jpeg)
Richard Falk writes that the Brussels attack for which ISIS claimed responsibility exhibits the new face of 21st century warfare for which there are no front lines, no path to military victory, and acute civilian vulnerability. As such, it represents a radical challenge to our traditional understanding of warfare, and unless responses are shaped by these realities, it could drive Western democracies step by step into an enthused political embrace and revived actuality of fascist politics.