The NAP misses the core issue at hand, which is the maligne and pervasive influence we are fighting against. Such influence neither requires coercio, nor relies in it. It works more through fraud (in all it's different ways), than through force. But it can be stopped through force (forcefull exclusion would be the preferred nethod here). Here the NAP turns out to be more of a handicap, than help.
"...whoever can maintain dominance in the cognitive domain will ultimately prevail in any conflict..."
"...Both sides engage in MindWar..."
Both are true, but the almost total control of the mass media gives one side an essentially insurmountable advantage. It seems to me that if you can write the mainstream narrative, then you cannot be defeated. Truth may be inconsequential. So as long as one side has that dominance, then the outcome of any general Mindwar is a foregone conclusion. The history of the past few decades seem to prove it
As long as we're still talking and not acting, our cognitive is dominated by the Nudgemeisters.
The truth is they've already won and this is all peasant grumbling.
"...whoever can maintain dominance in the cognitive domain will ultimately prevail in any conflict..."
Oh. That's a lot of money, sweat and time saved !
That doesn't cost $700 Billion !
"It is immoral to use force against the innocent."
We're really going to have to cancel actual war, here...and as it happens...we have.
ROE=NAP. ROE is simply a lawyers scam and BTW changes daily...or more than daily.
NAP....don't use force against the innocent. OK.
Because terror never works, fear doesn't work.
Violence never changes anything....
Especially against the innocent...
HAMAS just defeated Israel.
In fact Israel is probably going the way of South Africa but much worse and it's happening fast.
Review: HAMAS just won.
AQ and the Islamists won against America, we left.
The Taliban won.
The Khmer Rouge won.
The North Vietnamese won.
Mao won in China.
The USSR won.
The Tartars won.
The Mongols won.
The Romans won.
Apply all this to WW2, the Indian wars on this Continent, indeed to any victory ever...
tell me how history, and success, meet your exacting criteria?
They don't.
This is all a formula to delude yourself we can talk or think our way out of it..
The NAP misses the core issue at hand, which is the maligne and pervasive influence we are fighting against. Such influence neither requires coercio, nor relies in it. It works more through fraud (in all it's different ways), than through force. But it can be stopped through force (forcefull exclusion would be the preferred nethod here). Here the NAP turns out to be more of a handicap, than help.
"...whoever can maintain dominance in the cognitive domain will ultimately prevail in any conflict..."
"...Both sides engage in MindWar..."
Both are true, but the almost total control of the mass media gives one side an essentially insurmountable advantage. It seems to me that if you can write the mainstream narrative, then you cannot be defeated. Truth may be inconsequential. So as long as one side has that dominance, then the outcome of any general Mindwar is a foregone conclusion. The history of the past few decades seem to prove it