Game Theory #22 -Twilight Of The Nation-State

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There is a ceasefire now between Iran and United States, but most analysts expect that this war will resume in a week, two weeks, a month, but it will s- it will resume because it is impossible for the United States and Iran to come to a mutually beneficial and satisfying, um, arrangement. So today, I want to look at how this war will evolve. And my argument to you today is that this US-Iran war, it's really the first war of the 21st century. Um, and so I want to explain to you how warfare has evolved these past few hundred years. So the simplest way to fight a war is you would destroy a state's capacity to fight by killing as many soldiers as possible, right? You would arrange to fight the enemy on a battlefield. Whoever wins this, uh, battle would win the war, and that was how traditionally wars, wars were fought for hundreds and hundreds of years. But in the 20th century, something happened, which is that the state, a nation state, developed the capacity to have a lot of people, millions of people. And so the state could always replenish its forces on the battlefield. And so now what you had to do was you had to destroy the state's capacity to produce, to manufacture. Okay? And this is really--