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"Big sticks" don't help against irrational actors. Mutually Assured Destruction assures that there will be no direct conflict between superpowers, but if indivi
by TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
"Big sticks" don't help against irrational actors. Mutually Assured Destruction assures that there will be no direct conflict between superpowers, but if individuals become radicalized, they become willing to act irrationally(from a game theory definition of "rational").
This is the real reason we started a war against terror. Terrorism and asymmetric warfare are about the only external thing capable of actually bringing our country down.
- credit_guy 6y ago> Mutually Assured Destruction assures that there will be no direct conflict between superpowers If a conflict stays below a certain threshold, it doesn't go nuclear. Russia is always prodding to see how far they can go. Ability to answer in kind is something you need, and autonomous tanks seem to fit the bill quite well.