By Akar Bharadvaj The attack … should have been a short one, like a blitzkrieg, because [we] did not have the resources for a long campaign. We knew that we were not prepared to fight a long war. … We had nine divisions to cover the nine roads. … Only one division advanced along each […]
Category: War On The Rocks
By Brandon Leshchinskiy “I don’t know what we mean when we say we’re ‘pursuing AI.’ Do you?” “We don’t change to accommodate new technologies, anyway … We just shove them into our current paradigm.” “I don’t even understand what we’re supposed to be doing right now!” Twenty officers are seated around a table, mired in […]
By Samuel Helfont In December 1998, Bill Clinton called Boris Yeltsin, pleading: “The relationship between the United States and Russia that you and I have worked so hard to build is far too important and, to my mind, far too sound, to be subverted by Saddam Hussein.” To Clinton’s dismay, Yeltsin answered that indeed, “what […]