The West is losing today’s infowars and must hit back hard
A book excerpt and interview with Sean McFate, a former American paratrooper, mercenary and author of “The New Rules of War”
By K.N.C.
THERE IS a view that a fractured global order can be mended like a broken leg, and over time might emerge stronger for it. But this is probably a naive fantasy, argues Sean McFate. Instead, the West needs to look opened-eyed at a new “durable disorder”—a period which, like the middle ages, is typified by a complex and occasionally violent interplay of state and non-state powers.
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