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A “softer kind of MAD” isn’t MAD. The whole point is that there’s mutual destruction, and that it be assured and devastating. Just the fact that these attacks h
by IfOnlyYouKnew 5y ago
A “softer kind of MAD” isn’t MAD. The whole point is that there’s mutual destruction, and that it be assured and devastating. Just the fact that these attacks happen shows that it doesn’t follow the logic of MAD.
Considering the are attacks from Russian state-sponsored/run/tolerated groups against important US targets makes it more sensible to note how unlike MAD this battlefield is, even in contrast to, for example, conventional warfare, which isn’t core to the mechanism of MAD but has, in the past, been subject to the restrictions that follow from it.
- calgoo 5y agoI still think it’s a kind of MAD. Maybe not at a global / national level. But if you are someone who hurts / torture people for a regime, you and your family is normally protected by being anonymous. So releasing their info gives the people the power to hunt down the state actor and not let them hide.
- adventured 5y agoIt's not MAD at all. It's akin to perpetual proxy war, which has rarely stopped between all the various powers. It's Iran killing US soldiers in Iraq. It's the US killing Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan. It's China or the USSR killing US soldiers in Vietnam. And so on.
- baybal2 5y ago> It's China or the USSR killing US soldiers in Vietnam. And so on. In that case, there was very clear troop presence on the ground by both of them.