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44th book of 2024 complete:
The Dragons and the Snakes by David Killcullen
Really great look at the adaptive environments created by Western military powers and rising or small forces trying to compete.
Adaptations to threats are necessary and natural for survival. Something is either killed by a threat or finds a way to survive in the threat environment. The West’s primary problem is that governments expenditures on defense are captured by the MIC. Profits are trumping success and the perverse incentives mean higher profits for more failures, rather than smaller profits for swift victories.
The major topic that a lot of military and geopolitical theorists miss is the money aspect; specifically the USGs use of the dollar. It’s mentioned how a Chinese PLA Officer identified the US’s use of the dollar as a weapon and Killcullen quickly classifies
it as “completely loopy”.
This is the West’s problem; a lack of understanding our enemies and ourselves. I would recommend Killcullen read Lords of Poverty by Graham Hancock and Hidden Repression by @gladdstein for a better understanding of the West’s use of monetary policy as economic warfare.
Thanks to Jack Carr for pointing me to this book in his last book, Red Sky Mourning.
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