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MAD isn't a tactic. Its a result of the belief that your opponent wont do "X" because if the MAD concept. The problem is that we're likely to get a MAD result
by senectus1 6y ago
MAD isn't a tactic. Its a result of the belief that your opponent wont do "X" because if the MAD concept.
The problem is that we're likely to get a MAD result because everyone knows of the MAD meme and thinks that their opponent is thinking.
- ethanbond 6y agoYes it’s just an emergent state of two or more actors doing the somewhat sensible thing (not wanting their own people to be annihilated). The question is still why this wouldn’t work, since it did work (albeit very riskily) through the entire Cold War. AFAICT no relevant variable has changed.