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Technology Doesn’t Win Wars. Why the US Pretends it Does. (Interview w/ Sean McFate)

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01.27.2019 at 03:40pm

Technology Doesn’t Win Wars. Why the US Pretends it Does. (Interview w/ Sean McFate) – Big Think

  • Wars of the future will not even look like wars to the traditional mind. The worst threat is systemic. It’s growing entropy in the global system.
  • Today, when Russia wants to shake up Europe — the world — its operatives weaponize refugees. That is, by bombing civilian centers, they create an avalanche of refugees, which, in turn, creates Brexit and the rise of right-wing national parties that want to disembowel the European Union.
  • High-tech is not the savior that many futurists pretend it is when it comes to warfare. As a matter of fact, McFate contends, much of our investment in it is ludicrous. “You know, we have not fought, we have not had a strategic dogfight since the Korean War. So why do we need more fighter jets? I do not know. . . . We’ve spent $1.5 trillion on the F-35. That’s more than Russia’s GDP.”

Watch and read (transcript) the entire interview at Big Think.

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