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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Is the best defense a strong offense in cybersecurity?
Summary:Â 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:Â 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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After Paris: will we think first, or just repeat what’s already failed?
Summary: The call goes out just as it did after 9/11: kill, kill, kill — more evidence that we’ve learned nothing from our expensive post-9/11 wars that have set the Middle East aflame. So we’ll double down on stupid, testing to see if our great power can overcome our blindness, arrogance, and ignorance. {1st of …
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The Cult of the offense returns: why we’re losing the long war, & how to win
Summary: We cannot escape history. It offers lessons to guide us. It’s deployed as propaganda to mislead us. Successful strategy requires distinguishing between the two. Our long war, so far a series of defeats, provides examples of both. We can do better in the future if only we’d pay attention. “As we shall show, defense …
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