I generally take hawkish military-inspired postures seriously where they are actually appropriate. Where even serious thinkers go wrong is not realizing they’re doing the economic equivalent of “honor-based” strategy. Something no modern military would ever do on battlefield.
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Sometime between the US Civil War and WW2, military conflict evolved from honor-based to calculated, industrially efficient total war. Honor-based militaries were routinely wiped out against this model. Neoliberalism was “total war” doctrine in economics *and it works*
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Replying to @Aelkus
Yep. Though in a weird way, Ender’s Game managed to thread that needle, but at the cost of making the hero a sadistic nerd-revenge-porn fantasy figure.
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