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The Future of Warfare Is Here (with General Sir Richard Barrons)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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Are We on a Staircase?

There's no script to thisad but we shouldn't see it asas an unnecessarily linear process. Most wars start for really bad reasons. They usually start when there's a head of steam that's been allowed to build up. And then, and then you're in the arena of miscalculation and and overreached. So one of the risks of the modern day is states now possess the capability to bring to a halt the daily life of people they're falling out with. It probably would take two weeks to bring most european countries to their knees. If you apply that sort of strategy well and comprehensively, and at no point have you conducted a twentieth century style invasion.

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