![]() ![]() A deep rethink of air defense is needed, even if it means retiring the ultra-testosteronal top guns. Military history is littered with instances in which generals and admirals were loth to admit that their treasured way of warfare-cavalry and battleships, for example-were obsolesced by newer, nimbler innovations. In that same vein, air forces haven’t yet come to grips with the fact that remote-control swarms are more effective, in toto, than a relative handful of arduously trained human pilots and their aircraft. To put that another way, it appears that offensive weapons can be made more cheaply than defensive weapons. Around the world, attacks now consist of swarms of drones or missiles that overwhelm the defense with sheer numbers. As Tennyson would say of an earlier military debacle, “someone had blundered.” Indeed, it appears that there were blunders on multiple fronts.Ĭlearly, aerial attack now has the upper hand over aerial defense. It will be a date that will live in infamy in that country, not just for the vicious nature of the attacks, but also for the incompetence of Israel’s vaunted defense forces. Israel suffered a massive military defeat on 10/7. So before we make some more epic mistakes, let’s get a grip. did go to war against some of those countries, and the effort ended in disaster. needed to carry the war to not only Afghanistan, but also Iraq, Syria, Iran-even China. In the days thereafter, some 22 years ago, this author can remember watching former education secretary Bill Bennett say that, in response, the U.S. Yes, the level of fervor, at least in some quarters, is starting to resemble the feeling after 9/11. ![]() That response should be swift and devastating to the Iranian terrorist network and the source of this unadulterated evil.” McMaster, a former national security advisor, went further, much further: “The United States and other nations need to join Israel in the response just as our allies did after 9/11. For instance, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley declared, “This is not just an attack on Israel-this was an attack on America.” And H.R. politics is able to keep the United States and the Middle East distinct. In fairness to Crenshaw, he was referring to the Middle East, although not everyone in U.S. As Alfred North Whitehead said knowingly, all history is a footnote to Plato. There is nothing new under the sun the most we ever see is variations on themes, including the human propensity for folly. They challenge longstanding speculations about when exactly Whitehead developed some of his most famous metaphysical concepts, and how those concepts are to be properly interpreted against the wider backdrop of his life and thought.Second, Crenshaw used the eternally naive formulation, “it’s different this time.” The true conservative, like the wise Wall Street investor, knows that it’s never different. These student notes provide the long-missing window into critical developments in Whitehead’s thinking during this time.
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