The Future of War: A Discussion with Mark Galeotti
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is the Reliance on Public Vigilances a Fail?
Amitai Yu: The key thing about the book is o really to start the debate. Yu used the phrase public vigilance in the book, and youre telling me now, the public must beware of all this stuff,. And they must hold politicians to account on it. But does that mean that the reliance on public vigilances is a bit flawed? Bcause there's no public. My view is that, on the whole, foreign actors very rarely actually have the capacity to to change people's minds. They have no magic mind control plowers. What they are able to do is take advantage of groups that already feel disfranchised and unavoided othing. This is one
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