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. > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Jochen Fromm > *Sent:* Friday, August 20, 2021 6:07 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Development of political order > > > 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. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> > Date: 8/20/21 14:42 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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. >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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