The coronavirus has people at the American DoD worried about the Chinese.
And since the countries response has been quite terrible at handling the virus it has military people worried about the countries preparedness for a potential Hot-war with China.
Personally, I don’t think a Hot-war would be any good for either of them.
However, the US and China are obviously not-not in a Cold-war.
And technology, as in all wars, is playing a major role.
And of course, seeing China doing well creates automatic FOMO in Washington.
Thus in the past couple of months pieces like this have been more commonplace (especially if you pay attention to Steve Bannon’s Radio/Podcast show.)
I did think it is quite odd to see this filed under “Life & Arts” but then again, I think it was made inevitable because of the little book “The Art of War”.
As an aside to the title, the writer works at a company, Andruil Industries, focussed on “Life-saving AI platforms to protect troops, fight wildfires, perform search & rescue missions and much more.”
So it is here I would like to point out that the Taliban and the Vietnamese and the Mongols have a little lesson for the world. Fancy Tech is not enough to win a war. Last time I read something about the Mongols it did not mention how they were technologically superior to the Romans. 🤷♂️
(Of course, you would rather not be in the shoes of those Taliban or Vietcong fighters. And also, of course, I know the Romans had the Pax Romana and did so by probably being technologically more advanced.)
What might be “scary- interesting” is how new tech could allow a Nation to win a war by optimizing what can be done in the Grey zones of the Geneva Convention. 🤷♂️
But I doubt it will.
My nightmare is that we just have more eternal wars.
Speaking of technology and war, here is a good piece from CB insights about the “Meme Wars” I advice you to read.