Underground Strategy This Is Not a Drill: Listener Q&A with Amos Fox
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Aug 24, 2025 
Amos Fox, a seasoned military scholar and author, dives into listener questions about modern warfare. He challenges traditional definitions of war and peace, emphasizing their complex continuum. Fox examines the pitfalls of prioritizing technology over clear military objectives and illustrates the dangers of misconceptions in strategy. He discusses the evolving nature of attrition warfare, advocating for adaptability in tactics while scrutinizing the effectiveness of current military approaches. Expect sharp insights and hard truths about today’s battlefield realities.
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Prioritisation Drives Doctrine Shifts
- Governments must prioritise force design because budgets and procurement cycles force trade-offs between COIN and large-scale warfighting.
- Amos Fox argues reorientation reflects probable futures, not that COIN is permanently obsolete.
There Is No Clear Peace–War Boundary
- There is never a clean line between war and peace; states constantly prepare for or engage in conflict.
- Fox recommends revisiting early theorists like J.F.C. Fuller to understand continuous competition.
What Attrition Really Means
- 'Attrition' lacks a coherent modern theory and is often used pejoratively against casualty-producing methods.
- Fox introduces 'battlefield parallax': proximity and battlefield variables drive whether maneuver or attrition dominates.
