{"id":3222,"date":"2009-10-08T04:58:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T04:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2009-10-08T04:58:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T04:58:17","slug":"shlok-vaidyas-singularity-of-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3222","title":{"rendered":"Shlok Vaidya’s Singularity of Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shlok<\/strong> <\/a>posts up on the future of war in response to Lexington’s Green’s<\/strong> prospective speaking engagement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The History and Future of Warfare <\/a><\/p>\n

…..The history of warfare looks something like this cycle that repeats itself within the governance market – between an insurgent governance platform and the dominant platform of the time. Victory is gauged by market-share of each platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Tribe vs. Tribe <\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Tribe vs. State <\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. State vs State <\/strong>\n
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    1. Marked by the invention of the nuke. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    2. Network vs State <\/strong>\n
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      1. Where we are now. Networks are essentially information empowered tribes. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      2. Network vs. Network <\/strong>\n
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        1. When the nation-state collapses into its component resilient communities and combats the networks that won. <\/strong><\/li>\n
        2. Insurgencies and private military corporations act<\/strong> as governance platforms<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
        3. Small-Scale Networks vs Network <\/strong>\n
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          1. Advanced information flows decreases mass requirements and increases decentralization. <\/strong><\/li>\n
          2. Trend continues until post-human age. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
          3. Small-Scale Network\u00a0vs Small-Scale Network <\/strong><\/li>\n
          4. Individual vs. Small-Scale Network <\/strong><\/li>\n
          5. Individual vs. Individual <\/strong><\/li>\n
          6. Post-human vs. Individual <\/strong>\n
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            1. When the difference between man and machine <\/strong>is negligible<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
            2. ? vs Post-Human <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              *Acceleration really takes off when the network barrier is broken.
              \n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

              I like the flow in the outline. Potential countervailing trends to Shlok’s model? Here’s a couple:<\/p>\n

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              • Aggressive migration\/refugees-in-arms – think Hutu militiamen fleeing to the Congo from Tutsi rebels, but scaled up for a failing great or regional power.<\/li>\n
              • Rogue nuclear events will cause a countervailing, centralizing, “circling the wagons” effect that will temporarily strengthen states and allow them to “take off the gloves” against networked opponents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                Nice. Shlok posts up on the future of war in response to Lexington’s Green’s prospective speaking engagement: The History and Future of Warfare …..The history of warfare looks something like this cycle that repeats itself within the governance market – between an insurgent governance platform and the dominant platform of the time. Victory is gauged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,262,16,46,50,304,132,574,37,78,336,49,39,367,270,14,372,90,170,263,131,514,282,220,13,375,312,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-4gw","category-5gw","category-analytic","category-chicago-boyz","category-defense","category-dystopia","category-failed-state","category-futurism","category-ideas","category-intellectuals","category-lexington-green","category-military","category-military-history","category-national-security","category-networks","category-non-state-actors","category-nuclear","category-robotics","category-scenario","category-security","category-shlok","category-superempowered-individuals","category-tech","category-theory","category-transnational-criminal-organization","category-tribes","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}