Given what happened with #BurnInBook moments coming true a week after publication, we ought to put a disclaimer on it...
But among the key trends it is designed to help visualize: 1) how easily a conflict could start 2) how social media reshapes not just reporting, even of a great power war, but also ways governments act. 3) how traditional US allies might respond differently than assumed in past
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"As Gen. Omar Bradley is credited as saying, “Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.” ...Unfortunately, when it comes to how the American defense community plans for and talks about the future of competition and conflict in the Pacific, it isn’t measuring up"
"...the norm of the literally thousands of leader speeches, congressional testimonies, vision statements, and interviews on the future of war and competition and conflict with China. If logistics is mentioned at all, which is rare, it is a toss-off line."
In honor of all the policy thinktanks and media trying to leverage the #Oppenheimer movie for their own purposes , I provide you with a thread of #BarbieTheMovie fighting back.
In it, I substitute "Barbie" into your texts...Let's see what fun we can have:
The Aspen Barbie Forum is the premier Barbie policy conference in the United States. Presented by the Barbie Strategy Group, It has provided a nonpartisan public venue for domestic and global leaders to discuss the key Barbie policy issues of the day for the past 14 years.
The Forum features the highest caliber of speakers, including Ken, Skipper, Midge, Nikki, Teresa, Summer, Stacie, and Taffy, as well as domestic and international government officials, business executives, leading academics, and noted journalists.
(a thread, sharing my response to a question from a senior leader on it)
Almost every new tech in war, whether the battleship to nuclear weapons, has created new questions of their use and abuse, often leading to arms control discussions. So we should not be surprised to see this happen with AI and robotics.
Yet, this new wave of intelligent automation is different in that it is more than just another new tool.
Imagine if they were actually serious about this 1 door nonsense talking point, as the Republican policy solution for school shootings.
Wouldn’t it be an utter indictment of the Heritage Foundation that they didn’t propose something so simple as that, for decades?
IE, if you actually believe that idea, you should be angry at all the needless dead children because your thinktanks didn’t think of it and failed your red state leaders. It would be a massive Intelligence failure and question wasted millions of dollars.
'@Heritage, I donated $ to you for years. And yet you delivered nothing on 1 door schools!
Where were the short policy briefs on the conservative case for 1 doors?
Where were the op-eds on how Hungary has 1 doors and that is why they have no mass shootings?
Talk to them. Ask them their fears and concerns.
They will bring up threats like School Shootings, Climate Change, and the Pandemic. They will also talk about behavioral/social problems like Racism, Social Media Harassment, and Bullying.
On each of these, the GOP position has either been to deny the problem or, even worse, exacerbate it, whether it is denying the science and facts of everything from climate change to gun control to making its leader the most well known social media bully IN THE WORLD.
The counter narrative soon to below:
'If you don't like being assigned to an abortion ban state, tough. No one made you join the military, just like no one 'makes' you get pregnant. Handle your business, follow the state law, or leave."
2) Way to help recruiting and retention, in an era of unprecedented unemployment, Fred Flintstone. 3) This legal change effects just the soldier who signed up, but their spouse, partner, even daughter.
4) Pregnancy is not always a choice. Women, including yes military service members and their spouses, partners, and daughters can suffer rape or incest, which many states won't allow abortion for. Now, they'll have no choice but to have child or request leave/violate local law