We are winning the culture war. The WOT doesn’t matter.
America is the attacker in the clash of cultures. We’re winning. Bombs are irrelevant in this conflict.
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William Lind explains our mad wars – and how we can win
This is William Lind’s most important posts, and the most important on the FM website. Our apathy & passivity are our foe’s greatest asset.
Let’s try a defensive strategy in America’s wars, and win.
Summary: So many posts here describe how we are losing. Since we’ve forgotten, I’m reposting explanations of why and how we are losing — and how we can win in the age when 4th generation warfare (4GW) is the dominant mode of war. Step one: adopt a rational grand strategy. The original version was posted in …
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Is the best defense a strong offense in cybersecurity?
Summary: The US government appears to assume that — as with nuclear war — “the best defense is a strong offense” Cybersecurity expert Emilio Iasiello asks if this makes sense with cybersecurity, given the difficulty of identifying the attacker (attribution) and striking back at them (often amorphous non-state actors). Complacency in Cyberspace May Be Our Biggest …
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Will we repeat our mistakes in the Middle East & lose, or play defense & win?
Summary: The West’s post-9/11 wars in the Middle East have run down, but our involvement in Syria’s civil war and the attacks by radical Islamists in American — and the far larger Paris attacks — have begun a new phase in this clash of civilizations. Before we attack, repeating the mistakes of the past 15 …
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