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This is the problem with "sound bite" bits of conventional wisdom. The more it's used and misused, the less it's actually understood. People hear "Security through obscurity is bad…

Read the linked excerpt, it's excellent. It is specifically a warning about the impending WW2, and an argument to keep the US out of it.

China has been using the last 19 years to do just that, building out their infrastructure and R&D (and in other countries, too, see the Belt and Road initiative) while the US has b…

If you read the piece OP linked (I highly recommend it, it is outstanding), or the whole book, the entire point is a warning about the looming threat of WW2, and his idea of the 3 …