October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
570 pages
24h 55m
English
This chapter gives a survey of two hugely important conceptual aids to understanding an adversary, but also our allies, and ourselves: “strategic culture” and “collective mentality.” This discussion needs to be prefaced with a methodological point. Neither of these concepts pretends to be an “independent variable.” Much to the contrary, both are highly dependent on many, many other variables, which themselves are in part interdependent. There is no way any of these concepts could be packaged into a neat physics or chemistry formula spelling out that “whenever A, then B.” Such neat rules governing the natural sciences can rarely, ...
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