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That's a hypothetical, not an example. An example would be "US has been worried for years that Russia has been influencing US politics, now we see Russia invad
by toolz 4y ago
That's a hypothetical, not an example. An example would be "US has been worried for years that Russia has been influencing US politics, now we see Russia invade Ukraine and US supports Russia"
Instead, what do we actually see? We see people claiming for years that Russia has been influencing US politics, yes the US has contributed more than the entirety of the european union combined to aid Ukraine in war efforts. In fact, some accounting suggests the US has donated more to Ukraine than Russia has spent on the war itself.
So where are these examples of successful spying/data turned into action or battlefield advantages? There's certainly no shortage of spying.
- mrex 4y agohttps://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archives/2018/July/Washington-Spies/ https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archive...
- toolz 4y agoI don't see any correlation between spies as agents and spying on your own people. If Washington would have spied on his own people he probably would've been worse off by wasting those resources and sowing discord. Further, we already spy on our own people and we can't even stop low-tech orchestrated attacks that involved men who trained to fly, but skipped landing lessons and hijacked planes with box cutters.
- mrex 4y ago>I don't see any correlation between spies as agents and spying on your own people. Well now that doesn't make any sense. If you spy on the other side, and they spy on you, but you don't spy on you, then how do you know what they know? Or what they want to know but don't yet? Information is the currency of warfare. If the other side is in our OODA loop, they're going to shape our decisions at a tempo we can't respond to.