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Interesting discussion about asymmetrical warfare with Dan Carlin and Max Brooks.
I’m only halfway through, but some topics/discussion points:
Brooks thinks Desert Storm was one of the worst ideas from a military perspective because it showed the world we still were focused on winning wars on the field and that we could not be beat there (so other nations started ramping up their asymmetrical tactics).
Brooks says the intelligence community knew for years before Covid and 2016 election that Russian bots had infiltrated internet message boards and were questioning vaccine safety. Said sometimes whole debates would be carried out on both sides by Russian bots.
No doubt Russian bots were also busy in 2016 and 2020, fueling illegitimacy concerns against BOTH candidates w/r/t the election.
Re the Russian bots, as Carlin says, they (no doubt this includes other nations ,too, not just Russia) do this because they know we won’t go to war over it despite its pernicious effects.
So what do we do about it? And why won’t our politicians address this in a bipartisan effort?
I’m only halfway through, but some topics/discussion points:
Brooks thinks Desert Storm was one of the worst ideas from a military perspective because it showed the world we still were focused on winning wars on the field and that we could not be beat there (so other nations started ramping up their asymmetrical tactics).
Brooks says the intelligence community knew for years before Covid and 2016 election that Russian bots had infiltrated internet message boards and were questioning vaccine safety. Said sometimes whole debates would be carried out on both sides by Russian bots.
No doubt Russian bots were also busy in 2016 and 2020, fueling illegitimacy concerns against BOTH candidates w/r/t the election.
Re the Russian bots, as Carlin says, they (no doubt this includes other nations ,too, not just Russia) do this because they know we won’t go to war over it despite its pernicious effects.
So what do we do about it? And why won’t our politicians address this in a bipartisan effort?
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