VIDEO: MILITARY STRATEGY – A GLOBAL HISTORY COMMENTS Smart speaker. Well done. T

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)