This is an excellent essay. The quote from Joseph Conrad is perfect. Clausewitz was right. Tenacity and endurance are the decisive qualities in a contest of wills. Clarity is the decisive mental quality. The West has become hedonistic and neurotic. It means they no longer see things clearly and it is relatively easy to confuse them. They always want to find the easy way out of a problem. Sometimes you simply have to accept the horrible truth.
On the battlefield they behave quite old-fashioned with meat waves, with the mass of artillery, Russia kills it's men as in the Second World War. The demography of Russia is such that Russia has always produced refugees.
This obfuscating, pompous behaviour is part of Russian culture, can be seen in the revolution of the workers, the overestimated army, Putin's fake democracy, elections with fake candidates, bending the constitution, the use of doppelgangers, war is called a special military operation.
Yes, they have improved in the modern use of propaganda, they infiltrate western governments. With an economy the size of Italy they want to be a world power, so education, health, infrastructure are at a lower level than in the West.
In terms of economic size, Canada and Italy are bigger than the Russian economy, with Spain and South Korea just behind. Having nuclear weapons is no guarantee of military success.
„In this new terrain, control isn’t about flags on maps—it’s about trust networks, bandwidth dominance, and cognitive saturation. The territory is no longer landlocked—it’s mental, digital, and social.“
Obviously technology has evolved, but would you say that, on a tactical level, this is very different from covert (and overt) uses of propaganda and soft power by the US in the 20th century?
Every war is a game of a psychology and it should be seen in that spectrum only. war should be conducted only on the basis of how it changes the psychology of your opponent, your own people and fence sitter people. war effectiveness can not be determined by how much dead body it produces. neither it success can be guaranteed by technological prowess.
These were a thing , which was not thought of earlier and today they are paying a price of this only. people think that they can change the course of a war by relying on the technology. this is aworse idea they have. Technology helps you in your edge but it's the people who ultimately fight on both sides and it's the people whom you want to govern or order them to do things which you want them to do.
usa has been continuously supporting leader who has not been liked by host country people. this creates resentment in the people. usa needs to better understand and accept local culture as this is very important for their war effort or they will continuously loose the war in the asian countries. they have to make an alliance with a leader who is respected and accepted their people and not to mess with a leader who is accepted and respected by their people.
This is an excellent essay. The quote from Joseph Conrad is perfect. Clausewitz was right. Tenacity and endurance are the decisive qualities in a contest of wills. Clarity is the decisive mental quality. The West has become hedonistic and neurotic. It means they no longer see things clearly and it is relatively easy to confuse them. They always want to find the easy way out of a problem. Sometimes you simply have to accept the horrible truth.
On the battlefield they behave quite old-fashioned with meat waves, with the mass of artillery, Russia kills it's men as in the Second World War. The demography of Russia is such that Russia has always produced refugees.
This obfuscating, pompous behaviour is part of Russian culture, can be seen in the revolution of the workers, the overestimated army, Putin's fake democracy, elections with fake candidates, bending the constitution, the use of doppelgangers, war is called a special military operation.
Yes, they have improved in the modern use of propaganda, they infiltrate western governments. With an economy the size of Italy they want to be a world power, so education, health, infrastructure are at a lower level than in the West.
In terms of economic size, Canada and Italy are bigger than the Russian economy, with Spain and South Korea just behind. Having nuclear weapons is no guarantee of military success.
Yes, great comment. The author overestimates a bit the efficacy of the Gerassimov doctrine, IMO
„In this new terrain, control isn’t about flags on maps—it’s about trust networks, bandwidth dominance, and cognitive saturation. The territory is no longer landlocked—it’s mental, digital, and social.“
Obviously technology has evolved, but would you say that, on a tactical level, this is very different from covert (and overt) uses of propaganda and soft power by the US in the 20th century?
Every war is a game of a psychology and it should be seen in that spectrum only. war should be conducted only on the basis of how it changes the psychology of your opponent, your own people and fence sitter people. war effectiveness can not be determined by how much dead body it produces. neither it success can be guaranteed by technological prowess.
These were a thing , which was not thought of earlier and today they are paying a price of this only. people think that they can change the course of a war by relying on the technology. this is aworse idea they have. Technology helps you in your edge but it's the people who ultimately fight on both sides and it's the people whom you want to govern or order them to do things which you want them to do.
usa has been continuously supporting leader who has not been liked by host country people. this creates resentment in the people. usa needs to better understand and accept local culture as this is very important for their war effort or they will continuously loose the war in the asian countries. they have to make an alliance with a leader who is respected and accepted their people and not to mess with a leader who is accepted and respected by their people.
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