Is There a Blindness Between Security and War in the 20th Century?

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I worry that there's a kind of blindness between our institutions and the new threats posed by social media. I would actually call facebook, twitter and tick talk a kind of stuck's net for democracy. It's a psychological stuknet wor i basically spin your society faster and faster into polarization. And this isn't about one party winning or another. It's about social media disrupting our ability to have a unity for any task ahead of us. As a country Jisis like to ask: What is it like to live in an authoritarian regime who has been able to harness power on their exclusive domain? They don't understand that they can be part of building a better future for them all.

Would you say that the US is in war-time or peace-time? How do you know?

The truth is, the nature of warfare has changed so fundamentally, that we're currently in a war we don't even recognize. It's the war that Russia, China, and other hostile foreign actors are fighting against us — weaponizing social media to undermine our faith in each other, our government, and democracy itself.

World War III is here, it's in cyberspace, and the US is unprepared — and largely unaware.

This week on Your Undivided Attention, we're fortunate to be speaking with Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster. General McMaster was the United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018. He has examined the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States, and is devoted to preserving America's standing and security.