Britain is an appeasing power. (CD: British are moralists but like the medieval Chinese this has become their political failing.) There are two American foreign policies at the miliary level that are in conflict. And the USA is trying to extricate itself from it. (CD: interviewer correctly states that without goal and exit strategy one is not entering into a war one can win. — my opinion is that asking men to risk their lives (make costly investment) results in betrayal if abandoned. This is one of those problems the current military faces. ) Want no disjuncture between the military and society. (CD: again, I’ll harp on military service in exchange for political access). Same for American perception of American police (CD: under-trained, and not trained, and the public is intentionally ignorant. Again, we have a problem of politics. Again, monarchy-state-military, parliament-commons, market-production, church(school)-education. ) Strategic culture – can’t believe a word the Chinese say – each state, as a result of its cultural character, a set of strategic goals, (CD: incentives). And that we must address them by their strategic goals (CD: NOT OURS. It’s this conflict that creates conflict.). Grand strategy is an oddly American term. It assumes that there is a clear set of international goals. (CD: there are – they as a set). Scottish national party would still like another referendum. They would like to close a nuclear base. And it’s the most important base in Britain. … (almost out of time notice from interviewer) … (CD: the general problem of western, Jewish, islamist, and chinese universalism, rather than world particularism.) You don’t get to make a strategy and stick with it. Strategy is about thinking long term and adjusting. 1848 america did not hold onto gains in mexico. like to talk about ww2, and you shouldn’t assume perfection in politics, esp strategy, and too many people assume there is a perfect outcome possible. (Conversation ends)
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VIDEO: MILITARY STRATEGY – A GLOBAL HISTORY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5lemhX6vo COMMENTS Smart speaker. Well done. The west strategically won Vietnam. The consequence of the west’s strategy is that we drove Russia and China together. … The great failure was not uniting with Russia WHEN THEY ASKED FOR IT. (CD: We anglos are always strategically stupid) All the south had to do to win is to make the north not win. (CD: Politics is not (yet) empirical. Democracy is anti-empirical. Republics and Democracies are Terrible at strategies. ) … With present pressures, we are likely to see more internal stresses (violence). … We see those not using external forces as peaceful, but if we look at the suppression of Marxists in India, that’s war. (CD: Why isn’t the left’s prosecution of white males and western civilization by institutional means not war?) …. Jomini or Clausewitz don’t tell you much useful about 19th, 20th, or 21st-century states where conflicts are largely internal. (CD: I think this is better stated as the history of western evolution of the domestication of warfare is an intellectual prison still constraining the western mind when Leftists, Islam and China, do not have this same error. The Chinese do not play rules-based-strategy they rely only on power of self-interest.) Americans love to think of themselves as living in a failed state, it is still the most successful state. (CD: I disagree and I am certain that we will have a civil war very shortly.) The military does not have a practice of interfering in government, but the government does in the military and the reason the military hasn’t to date (CD: but will). … (more)
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