The Invisible Trenches of World War IV
In today’s global “new total war” battlefield, all effort is being placed on the offensive, and none on the defensive. No-one wins, but someone loses. And the global architecture changes.
In today’s global “new total war” battlefield, all effort is being placed on the offensive, and none on the defensive. No-one wins, but someone loses. And the global architecture changes.
And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?
Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?