This was a high signal discussion of many actors in Syria and their incentives. Would recommend.
I'm now wondering if the US government views its military effort there as a counter-terror, monitoring, deterrence, humanitarian, or peacekeeping one and how it thinks we're doing. If we're on the up and up, surely we'd go out of our way to broadcast wins and build trust with the citizenry sending taxes and children to this war. It would also be nice to know where we think this lands on the spectrum of conflict and what winning looks like. Does silence say things are going poorly, however they may be defined?
In Afghanistan, it always pissed me off to see Presidents, SECDEFs, and GOs utterly fail at PR (and strategy and focus and commitment and accountability and basic leadership skills etc). Secrecy makes it hard for plebeians and legionaries to embrace wars of empire, because no news isn't always good news.
https://fountain.fm/episode/Rqy6hezpdYnhhstPfHWX
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