I came across an interesting article regarding the U.S. meddling in Syria. Like most things regarding official U.S. policy, we have not been told the truth.
I spent hours yesterday wrestling with that topic. Alastair Crooke gets into that a bit in the linked article from yesterday and I came up with others. Max Blumenthal wrote a book that goes into a lot of that "The Management of Savagery." Many of these people trace the whole scheme back to Netanyahu and the Neocons back in thee 90s peddling their Clean Break strategy for regime change across the Islamic world.
I’m sure Schryver would agree with Simplicius’ eloquent and concise condemnation of those leading the charge of the Ukrainian debacle:
“I said this on X, but I’ll repeat it here: in many ways the Cold War was a far safer time because it had more serious, non-psychopathic people in charge who actually respected the dangers of nuclear holocaust. Today’s leaders are all totally immorally degraded puppets, likely placed in charge only on the basis of kompromat, and no longer have the necessary professional qualities or discretion of their forebears for the seriousness of the situation. Society, more stupefied by bread and circuses than ever, of course, is blind to their leaders’ total ignorance and dangerous provocations.” Gulp.
In the DIGITAL paradigm (ubiquitous tech/Robots - artificial souls and decisions - and those that promote them) what about/good are the humans?
This, incidentally, is where Kissinger ended up at the end of his life (see his last book with Eric Schmidt), which was a 180 from where he had lived until the last couple of years: what about the humans when tech is taking away the decisions humans used to make?
Remember that after WWII and everything that has gone down the ARPA and DARPA roads, the idea was how to have fewer humans involved in decisions and thus fewer casualties…this is now completely out the door…and no, “ethics” is not the answer to this…
Writer on the attrition war piece is an ex US soldier. I view this piece as more of a limited hangout.
I find Simplicitus analysis a lot more relevant. His analysis of the officer / nco issue was amazing. Especially with how much decision making is delegated by the Russian military to a low level for quick decisions / actions, verses the bureaucratic US Military. His example was the ability to quickly call in an artillery strike by a Lieutenant.
Tabular, visual, and textual summaries of that article by A. Vershinin:
https://open.substack.com/pub/complexiathesinker/p/llm-over-the-attritional-art-of-war
I came across an interesting article regarding the U.S. meddling in Syria. Like most things regarding official U.S. policy, we have not been told the truth.
https://johnkassnews.com/our-terrorist-ally-in-syria/
I spent hours yesterday wrestling with that topic. Alastair Crooke gets into that a bit in the linked article from yesterday and I came up with others. Max Blumenthal wrote a book that goes into a lot of that "The Management of Savagery." Many of these people trace the whole scheme back to Netanyahu and the Neocons back in thee 90s peddling their Clean Break strategy for regime change across the Islamic world.
I’m sure Schryver would agree with Simplicius’ eloquent and concise condemnation of those leading the charge of the Ukrainian debacle:
“I said this on X, but I’ll repeat it here: in many ways the Cold War was a far safer time because it had more serious, non-psychopathic people in charge who actually respected the dangers of nuclear holocaust. Today’s leaders are all totally immorally degraded puppets, likely placed in charge only on the basis of kompromat, and no longer have the necessary professional qualities or discretion of their forebears for the seriousness of the situation. Society, more stupefied by bread and circuses than ever, of course, is blind to their leaders’ total ignorance and dangerous provocations.” Gulp.
Americans thinking Russia’s economy is “one-dimensional” is like the pot calling the kettle black.
In the DIGITAL paradigm (ubiquitous tech/Robots - artificial souls and decisions - and those that promote them) what about/good are the humans?
This, incidentally, is where Kissinger ended up at the end of his life (see his last book with Eric Schmidt), which was a 180 from where he had lived until the last couple of years: what about the humans when tech is taking away the decisions humans used to make?
Remember that after WWII and everything that has gone down the ARPA and DARPA roads, the idea was how to have fewer humans involved in decisions and thus fewer casualties…this is now completely out the door…and no, “ethics” is not the answer to this…
Writer on the attrition war piece is an ex US soldier. I view this piece as more of a limited hangout.
I find Simplicitus analysis a lot more relevant. His analysis of the officer / nco issue was amazing. Especially with how much decision making is delegated by the Russian military to a low level for quick decisions / actions, verses the bureaucratic US Military. His example was the ability to quickly call in an artillery strike by a Lieutenant.
Duran had a great program on Haiti. The interviewees are to the left, but if even 50% of what they say is correct…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uskvKk99LHU
I caught a bit of that! Another huge (but small country) Cl-Fk. What a fiasco! Even Alexander was speechless.