The Art of War: Proxy Warfare
Simon Whistler · August 19, 2023 · 23 min video · Global
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To many of the most powerful nations throughout history, the idea of war has appeared unpalatable, uncivilized, or simply just inconvenient; major nations, big global players, have disagreements all the time, over trade, or borders, or ideology, some of which are too important or too irreconcilable to fix the negotiating table.
But if every failed negotiation led to the world 's best fighting forces taking up arms, well, the world order would never know peace.
But there 's a hell of a lot of grey space between polite conversation and all-out war, and if you're going to be operating in that grey space, then it helps to have some friends who can go to war for you from brief skirmishes between virtually unknown tribes to decades-long wars that claim the lives of millions, countless conflicts across history, have
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