Cauldron is an astonishingly detailed and well-written book.
It's very disturbing because although the premise of a new military alliance set in the 1990s is already out of date & disproven we are still burdened by governments & their component politicians and bureaucrats.
And governments with their component politicians & bureaucrats seem always all too willing to start or join another war.
And people the individuals who have to work & produce in order to be then robbed in the name of "taxation" to pay for the war machine just don't figure very prominently in the minds or whatever they use in lieu thereof of those politicians & bureaucrats.
Even in "Cauldron" the individual military people are not taken into consideration by the highest-ups whether politician or general. And that attitude goes back to the human wave assaults by North Vietnam & earlier by North Korea & still earlier by the Northern armies led by Ulysses Grant & of course even earlier than that perhaps to the beginnings of governments & mass movements.
Only individuals should count. Really only individuals do count but governments & those component politicians & bureaucrats treat individuals only as cogs in the great machine of the state to be used as cannon fodder in order as von Clausewitz said to carry on the politics by another means.
But "Cauldron" specifically is again very well written, beautifully detailed & apparently from a lot of research. I do recommend it. I urge everyone to consider the fact wars are unnecessary & would be a far less likely fact of our lives if we chopped governments down to rational size.
https://youtu.be/j_5J70K9oD8
When France & Germany unite against America, Britain & Eastern European democracies the former Soviet Union is caught in the middle of a trade war that turns into a shooting war.
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