New rules of war with Hanson and Arquilla

[Bangell99]

Peter's expression at 2:56 summed up my thoughts quite well... Arquilla didn't really explain anything.

[urah2525]

I believe Dr. Hanson is wrong. You can have a "Roman Peace" - if you can stomach it, especially with the US Military and its capabilities.

[TheKrapzapper]

New Rule! Shoot them in the eye, then throw their sorry ass in the sea....

[noobler9]

haha, I think the fallout 3 quote "war, war never changes" is actually pretty true, in a way... I think it's more like "so much of this has been done before that it's basically the same thing, moving along and bumbling along" stuff goes back and forth, guerilla warfare, then to phalanxes and open armies... then to legions which were more mobile... back to knights and skirmishers, although still fairly condensed armies, then to napoleonic guerillas as well, to WW1 charges to blitzkriegs

[1tzatara]

that's right

[TylerNull]

THE problem has nothing to do with the structure or composition or any other facet of the US war machine, but rather of its civilian drivers.

Until someone, ANYONE, in gov't says ANYTHING like ... "Bush missed an opportunity to drop hydrogen bombs like confetti across West Asia and North Africa to beat back the Muslim plague that is warring on all of mankind." ... then THE problem will still exist. Specifically, our REFUSAL to acknowledge its existence.

[Califacience]

@TylerNull

He missed an opportunity to randomly massacre hundreds of millions of innocent men women and children? And you probably wonder why every body ignores what you say.

[Halo4Lyf]

@Califacience Yes, that's exactly what we're saying. Such an act would have been an acknowledgment of reality: that we are in existential war for cultural survival.