Wargaming: Best Way to Prepare for the Unexpected
Malcolm Gladwell hosts a history podcast that looks into wargaming to find the “best way to prepare for the unexpected”. Spoiler alert: “Russia always won”.
Malcolm Gladwell hosts a history podcast that looks into wargaming to find the “best way to prepare for the unexpected”. Spoiler alert: “Russia always won”.
I’m not convinced yet that there was a good way for the US to exit Afghanistan. Part of saying that the exit has been a disaster is to project or predict some better way to go about it. Historians of the future will undoubtedly debate whether any good exit existed at all, and I for … Continue reading Afghanistan Lessons: No Good Exits From Losing. Was There a Way to Win?
In the 1980s under Ronald Reagan American military intelligence plastered Afghanistan with posters like the following one, promoting violent religious extremism as a form of invincibility. That old propaganda campaign has come full circle now, as I see very similar thinking (obviously seeded by Russian military intelligence) being propagated by posters (pun intended) on LinkedIn. … Continue reading Afghanistan Disinformation in the Age of LinkedIn
The easy answer is really a semantic one: nothing that can be done in cyber (information technology) is directly comparable to widespread kinetic destruction of military forces. Once something approaches that level of destructive force, it’s no longer really the domain of cyber. In other words we don’t really call it a voice attack if … Continue reading Why a Cyber Pearl Harbor Will Never Happen