Comments on: Peace through strength https://didacticmind.com/2015/07/peace-through-strength.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:43:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Didact https://didacticmind.com/2015/07/peace-through-strength.html#comment-3711 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 03:35:55 +0000 #comment-3711 In reply to Midknight.

Very good points and very true. The only way to fight a 4GW opponent is to have a decentralised, heavily armed, and deeply committed society that understands what it believes in and is willing to fight for the same.

Which, sadly, is precisely what the United States is becoming less like every day.

]]> By: Midknight https://didacticmind.com/2015/07/peace-through-strength.html#comment-3710 Wed, 15 Jul 2015 04:09:19 +0000 #comment-3710 Also – that strength of military is only a symptom. If the society behind it is one of "sheepdogs" as Grossman would put it (as much as I think he relied to much on bad stats and "video games are bad, mmmkay"), one where power is distributed, decentralized, and lethal force to evildoers is available around every corner, then 4GW warriors will have a very very tough time.

If, OTOH, only the centralized power structure has deadly force, and a single memetic ideology controls what thoughts CAN be thunk, then the structure is fragile, and vulnerable.

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