User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/My impressions on "It's a Brawl in the Family" (Vol3.Ep3)/@comment-9464517-20151115203539/@comment-24994749-20151116141855

That the USA didn't declare a state of war means little to nothing when they openly deployed military action in the Middle East. On top of that everybody old enough to have memory has some form of idea of what's happening in the Middle East.

Meanwhile is RWBY, we have seen nothing that points that Atlas has deployed military forces against a traget. At best what Ozpin&co have been doing is intelligence work. You cannot even talk about a "war against terrorism" when there has been no indication that there is somw form of special operative being held in responce to the WF.

And the whole "keeping the population ignorant to avoid the spread of panic" is, in my opinion the biggest flaw in the kingdoms policy at dealing with the Grimm. Information is what gives people a sense of control and security, lack of it only serves to breed conspiracy theories.

And just for the record, I'm 20, closer to 21. USA deployed military action when I was in Primary School, and despite the fact that I live across the continent we get news in our mass media about it at least once a month.