[FRIAM] Development of political order

[Marcus Daniels]

On Sunday, Blinken didn’t make it sound like that status was assured.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
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Daniel Suarez's book, Kill Decision, is a nice treatment of this scenario - both "good" and "bad" guys.

But it is worthless, because the Taliban are now 'heads of state' and we are not allowed to "hunt them down."

davew


On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

Nimble, weaponized drones in the air and on land, having dozens of sensors across the electromagnetic spectrum as well as advanced machine learning capabilities, could be used to hunt down targets in these hopeless states.


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You mean we should forget about tribalism and Islamism because the future belongs to robots anyway? The new Tesla robot looks creepy. I want a real R2D2.



-J.





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From: Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>>

Date: 8/20/21 14:42 (GMT+01:00)

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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Development of political order



Robotics seem inevitable for keeping the pressure on for this sort of situation.



https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M




On Aug 20, 2021, at 5:10 AM, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net<mailto:jofr at cas-group.net>> wrote:



Why have the Taliban been able to conquer Afghanistan so quickly, although they were hopelessly outgunned for almost 20 years as the article in the Atlantic describes ("Brother... it's too cold to jihad") ? It seems as if Afghanistan exists only in two stable modes: tribalism where the country is divided among clans and tribes, and radical Islamism in form of Taliban rulership. Both are among the oldest forms of political order forms according to Francis Fukuyama (who wrote two books about the development of political order which I am currently reading)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/what-i-learned-while-eavesdropping-on-the-taliban/619807/



-J.
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