Ep 002 "Antifragility and Irregular Warfare"
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In this episode, I make the case that insurgencies are antifragile and that counterinsurgencies are fragile for the most part; we discuss the concepts, examine historical and contemporary examples and set the stage for practitioners and scholars to leverage this model to gain a more true understanding of how IW works.
References:
Nassim Taleb: The Black Swan and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Douglas Porch: Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War
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