If I may nerd out to this... I want to put a Clausewitz lens on this.
Why? Carl von Clausewitz was a Prussian military thinker whose 1832 book On War defined modern strategy; he matters here because he saw war as a clash of wills shaped by emotion, chance, and reason. And I've kind of superimposed that framework onto society and the problem of information warfare.
Through a Clausewitz lens, this is war by other means: the trinity of government (policy caving to narrative pressure), military (defence innovation stalled by anti-science drag), and people (mass belief weaponized into economic self-sabotage) becomes a vulnerability caused by disinfo. How? Well, disinfo exploits the friction between them, turning public paranoia into a force multiplier for domestic decay. A lie is cheaper than any missile, deadlier to resilience. Your model gets it.
I kind of, only kind of, wrote about in this article (yes I know its a shameless plug)
So important to put numbers on disinformation because the mighty dollar is all some people care about.
yes thats right
If I may nerd out to this... I want to put a Clausewitz lens on this.
Why? Carl von Clausewitz was a Prussian military thinker whose 1832 book On War defined modern strategy; he matters here because he saw war as a clash of wills shaped by emotion, chance, and reason. And I've kind of superimposed that framework onto society and the problem of information warfare.
Through a Clausewitz lens, this is war by other means: the trinity of government (policy caving to narrative pressure), military (defence innovation stalled by anti-science drag), and people (mass belief weaponized into economic self-sabotage) becomes a vulnerability caused by disinfo. How? Well, disinfo exploits the friction between them, turning public paranoia into a force multiplier for domestic decay. A lie is cheaper than any missile, deadlier to resilience. Your model gets it.
I kind of, only kind of, wrote about in this article (yes I know its a shameless plug)
https://substack.com/home/post/p-177342628
thank you this is really interesting 😊
I love undiscovered histories that challenge you to rethink your views. thanks for sharing