Re: The American theory of hybrid war

2022-03-15 Thread Ted Byfield
On 15 Mar 2022, at 0:07, Brian Holmes wrote: > The American theory was produced after the 2005 Isreal-Lebanon war which > resulted in the Israelis finally exiting the South of Lebanon. Origin of > the concept is a guy named Hoffmann, 2007 (bit.ly/3MPtEVc). This is > distinct from the Russian

Re: The American theory of hybrid war

2022-03-15 Thread mp
On 15/03/2022 04:07, Brian Holmes wrote: Benson's question, When did this war begin? is profound. And the question, When's it going to end? will likely haunt us for a long time. On another level, perhaps, the fiction is the war/peace dichotomy/binary. Perhaps war is permanent and

Re: The American theory of hybrid war

2022-03-15 Thread Joseph Rabie
> Le 15 mars 2022 à 05:07, Brian Holmes a écrit : > > Benson's question, When did this war begin? is profound. And the question, > When's it going to end? will likely haunt us for a long time. While Michael's list of putative events (Brexit, Donald Trump...) that might signify "the

Re: A new avant-garde of Public Truth

2022-03-15 Thread Prem Chandavarkar
David, Brian, I have my doubts on whether an avant-garde is possible any more. Firstly, we are in an attention economy where attention is the scarce and determining resource. One of the primary means of grabbing attention is through novelty, and any avant-garde is seen as a potential that can

A new avant-garde of Public Truth

2022-03-15 Thread David Garcia
Discussions querying the authenticity of the FSB dissident source do actually matter. And comes back to Brian Holmes intervention on the 26th of Feb in which he argued that we should celebrate the fact that in the run up to the war instead of trying to strategically manage the truth, the US