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Odds are pretty much zero there. If you expect me to take my eyes off the terrorists (foreign and domestic), the Russians, North Koreans and so on, to entertai
by bilbo0s 2y ago
Odds are pretty much zero there.
If you expect me to take my eyes off the terrorists (foreign and domestic), the Russians, North Koreans and so on, to entertain your fever dream of, I don't know, Barak Obama or whatever being a threat, you're gonna be disappointed.
National security sir, is not a game.
- mieses 2y agoif it's not a game then what is it?
- bilbo0s 2y agoLook, I'm familiar with the historical debate about whether this is game theory or art. I come down on the art side. Game theory can deliver success in battle. In some cases, even war. But not in securing a nation. Which is a different matter entirely. Books through the centuries and millennia from Sun Tzu to Machiavelli framing it as an art have proven more enduring than those framing it as a game. There is a reason for that. You don't even have to be good at that art. But like any art you'd better at minimum have a discerning eye if you expect to have any chance of getting anything of importance that you may want. When you don't have a discerning eye, you start going after things that hold neither importance nor permanence. You expend all that well honed knowledge of game theory in the pursuit of foolish objectives.