Reply To: Chief Rabbi: Could we sit and study Torah without soldiers?

MW, he says all go. All is all. As for the talmid chacham in Shulchan Aruch, that refers to someone who is on the level of Torato omanuto. No Internet, no newspapers, no radio, no chazzanut concerts, no talking about politics or the weather. Only learning (although some say that he can work in order to earn a subsistence income).