ISW article 2010
 

An interesting broad stroke article concerning Centcom POV and political realities, assumptions, and assessments of the current state of affairs then.

https://www.understandingwar.org/sit...TRANSCRIPT.pdf

If the Viet Nam war was the first war to enter the household, via the ubiquities’
of the then MSM, the evening news, which arguably created the opposition to the war in Viet Nam and the antiwar movement of the 1960’s, the war in Ukraine is the
first war, that has capitalized on the full spectrum of a matured worldwide
accessible social media platform.

The connectivity, whose roots are firmly entrenched in the successful mirrored 60’s opposition, is the genesis 50 years of uninterrupted innovation, and lodestone for Ukraine.

What we are experiencing now, in real time, is the death of war by choice. It may
not happen in the next decade, but there is a distinct qualifier that war can no
longer be a personal action, or a state action, arguing harm outside the world forum.

A case in point would be USA after 9/11. Whereas, Iraq, in hindsight, the WMD false
flag campaign, would face serious opposition in today’s MSM ability to factually
link cause to action.

The war will be a rich mine for researchers interested in everything from leadership
studies to resiliency in conflict, armament, logistics, and all that is the
human experience in difficult times.

But, make no mistake, war as we have known it, these past 100 years, executed as
Putin has, will not be part of our grandchildren’s future, the real timeliness of information and destruction at your fingertips, negates tyrants, who can only operate/function in the the non-exposed. That, no longer exist.

YMMV

I so pray that you are correct, what is taking place in Ukraine is beyond comprehension to me. This is not about Putin's army whipping the other guys army. Does the world as a whole have what it takes to hold Putin and his military responsible for what has taken place?

Penn,

You are wise and your views are held high, but I think you have approached a fork in the road and not seen the choice..

Many will take the Blue path and think their rightness will eliminate war by virtue of their cause. AND you're correct that the new information highway of the internet will readily spread the news faster and further.

While others, like Putin, will recognize the sheeple's errors and take the Red path, knowing that those on the Blue path have already relinquished their abilities to defend themselves, thinking Monsters will fain exposure to the masses in the light of the vast presence of the internet's information highway..

Make no mistake, Putin will go down in history as a Monster, not unlike Idi Amin Dada, Hitler, or Stolin,,

but he will also be compared to Alexandra the Great, Lincoln, or Gandhi. Someone that ignored the naivety of the Blue path and did what he thought was right..

The more that select the Blue path, the more we will have Monsters on the Red path

We must prepare ourselves to be defenders on on the Red path :mad:


To much thinking this early,, anyone wanna share their Taco Bell coupons??