You win. I've got to hand my pinball crown to you. That boils my brain. Holy fuck.
That article is wondrous panoply of awful. In the opening there's a von Clausewitz name drop.
This phenomenon is known as the "Fog of War," a phrase which originated with Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz in his magnum opus, On War:
War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth.
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I'm a tech guy, not a military guy. And in terms of the kind of tech I'm into it's that weird decentralized crypto tech like Bitcoin, not SaaS.
From a good article in the New Yorker, The Other Afghan Women:
I met Wakil, a bespectacled Taliban commander. Like many fighters I’d encountered, he came from a line of farmers, had studied a few years in seminary, and had lost dozens of relatives to Amir Dado, the Ninety-third Division, and the Americans. He discussed the calamities visited on his family without rancor, as if the American War were the natural order of things. Thirty years old, he’d attained his rank after an older brother, a Taliban commander, died in battle. He’d hardly ever left Helmand, and his face lit up with wonder at the thought of capturing Gereshk, a town that he’d lived within miles of, but had not been able to visit for twenty years. “Forget your writing,” he laughed as I scribbled notes. “Come watch me take the city!” Tracking a helicopter gliding across the horizon, I declined. He raced off. An hour later, an image popped up on my phone of Wakil pulling down a poster of a government figure linked to the Ninety-third Division. Gereshk had fallen.
Wow if only the coalition had good SIGINT they would have been able to hold
You reminded me I have that article bookmarked with an Archive link to read "later". I really have to read it tonight after I come home from work so "later" becomes now. I have "to read later" bookmarks that go back to 2018.
You win. I've got to hand my pinball crown to you. That boils my brain. Holy fuck.
That article is wondrous panoply of awful. In the opening there's a von Clausewitz name drop.
From a good article in the New Yorker, The Other Afghan Women:
Wow if only the coalition had good SIGINT they would have been able to hold
You reminded me I have that article bookmarked with an Archive link to read "later". I really have to read it tonight after I come home from work so "later" becomes now. I have "to read later" bookmarks that go back to 2018.
spinball wizzer is my favorite what song