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Battles of Precise Mass: Technology Is Remaking War–and America Must Adapt
- aspenmayer 2y agohttps://archive.is/oRGXh https://archive.is/oRGXh
- fuzzfactor 2y agoOnce the line is completely blurred between weapons of mass destruction and mass weapons of destruction, then what?
- aspenmayer 2y ago> All military strategy is actually the cunning deployment of wasted resources to wrong-foot an enemy.[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtCG-Jo51d4&t=2419 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtCG-Jo51d4&t=2419 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Sutherland_(advertising_executive) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Sutherland_(advertising_e... It's a repeat of the Cold War space race, with moonshots like SDI designed to waste time and resources of the enemy more than it wastes your own resources, and you might even produce a product or outcome that is better than the status quo. Along the while, you get to impose sanctions on those who assist the enemy to do what you already are doing. You do this, because your enemy is also already doing this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-has-secret-war-drones-project-china-intel-sources-say-2024-09-25/ https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-has-secret-war-drones-p... https://archive.is/eCSmw https://archive.is/eCSmw