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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Daniel Suarez's book, Kill Decision, is a nice treatment of this scenario - both "good" and "bad" guys.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">But it is worthless, because the Taliban are now 'heads of state' and we are not allowed to "hunt them down."<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div class="qt-WordSection1"><p class="qt-MsoNormal">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.<br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><div><div style="border-right-color:currentcolor;border-right-style:none;border-right-width:medium;border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:medium;border-left-color:currentcolor;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:medium;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-top-color:rgb(225, 225, 225);border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1pt;padding-top:3pt;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in;"><p class="qt-MsoNormal"></p><div><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jochen Fromm<br></div><div> <b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 20, 2021 6:07 AM<br></div><div> <b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br></div><div> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Development of political order<br></div><p></p></div></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">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.<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">-J.<br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">-------- Original message --------</span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">From: Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Date: 8/20/21 14:42 (GMT+01:00)</span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Development of political order</span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"> </span><br></p></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Robotics seem inevitable for keeping the pressure on for this sort of situation.<br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><a href="https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M">https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M</a></span><br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><br></span></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"></p><div><br></div><p></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><p class="qt-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;">On Aug 20, 2021, at 5:10 AM, Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">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)<br></p></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/what-i-learned-while-eavesdropping-on-the-taliban/619807/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/what-i-learned-while-eavesdropping-on-the-taliban/619807/</a><br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal">-J.<br></p></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"></p><div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br></div><div> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam<br></div><div> un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div> FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><br></div><div> archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br></div><p></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br></div><div>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 <a href="http://bit.ly/virtualfriam">bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br></div><div>un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><br></div><div>archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>