Government, for a variety of reasons, is manifestly incompetent in everything it does and this lends parts of the explanatory framework in why systemic failure is the feature not a bug in Western martial efforts.

The critiques of the government supremacist mindset are legion and one can find many rational and elegant theses if you start at the Mises Institute and listen to the podcasts of Scott Horton at Antiwar.com. Scott and I recently did a deep dive together in Episode 5850 "Bill Buppert: A Deep Dive into Irregular Warfare" on 17 February 2023.

References:

Ludwig von Mises Bureaucracy

Colin Gray Modern Strategy

Thomas Sowell Knowledge and Decision

Daniel P. Bolger How We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

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Email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

Ep 012 "Sisyphus is God: Government Incompetence and Martial Failure"