The way smaller economies (as diverse as Ukraine and Iran) are demonstrating you can just **decide** power through hits from great power adversaries (as diverse as Russia and US/Israel) is showing some real interesting things about attritional war
Decapitation strikes are dumb, but omg this is dumb
2026: me, timid, behind schedule: *anxiously cites volumes of work across multiple disciplines for even basic claims about 'the literature'*
1986: chad Galen Strawson, self-assured, prolific: *cites exactly two philosophers. first endnote, verbatim: "Dogs, dolphins, human beings, Martians, etc."