My argument was that philosophy lost those wars. The the philosophy of war fighting we applied in those conflicts is the culmination of 60+ years of cold war, “super powers” Mckinsey consultant thinking.
And the thinking was wrong. Or maybe it was right for a while, but it’s wrong now. Super power technology may or may not be the way to win a super power v superpower war, but it doesn’t really help you in a guerrilla, insurgent conflict.
In metaphor, it’s depth versus width. We went incredibly deep on our tech stack. We should have gone wider. The technology that is showing itself is that which can be made cheaper, faster, and is less dependent on specialists. The US tech stack is the opposite of all of that, because it was selected for by the military industrial complex not for it’s war fighting capabilities, but to enrich and entrench existing manufactures.
A magnetron, some sheet metal and an idiot dumb enough to turn on something I wire together, and bam, you’ve got a tool for knocking drones out of the air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XdcWToy2c
Explain how weapons lost those wars.
Full scale war weapons are not effective in guerrilla warfare. Agreed. But when the shit hits the fan you’re gonna want big guns.
Also agree the US has overspent on their toys. Just saying we should invest in both.
My argument was that philosophy lost those wars. The the philosophy of war fighting we applied in those conflicts is the culmination of 60+ years of cold war, “super powers” Mckinsey consultant thinking.
And the thinking was wrong. Or maybe it was right for a while, but it’s wrong now. Super power technology may or may not be the way to win a super power v superpower war, but it doesn’t really help you in a guerrilla, insurgent conflict.
In metaphor, it’s depth versus width. We went incredibly deep on our tech stack. We should have gone wider. The technology that is showing itself is that which can be made cheaper, faster, and is less dependent on specialists. The US tech stack is the opposite of all of that, because it was selected for by the military industrial complex not for it’s war fighting capabilities, but to enrich and entrench existing manufactures.
That’s fair. I think they have access to both. Look at what the little militias aka the police are using on us.
Anybody with a soldering gun, a laptop and the right know-how can whip up a drone. You can’t just slap together missiles.
EDIT: they need microprocessors too
Its enough to make one want to start hording microwaves.
What’s the microwave for? I’m imagining fighting toys in Small Soldiers.
A magnetron, some sheet metal and an idiot dumb enough to turn on something I wire together, and bam, you’ve got a tool for knocking drones out of the air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XdcWToy2c
Haha I would probably kill myself trying to do that