I don’t know about “providing legitimacy”, that’s like spending a trillion dollars in order to procure one single gold toilet seat. Gold toilet seats are great, due to the human signalling-based psychology, but it’s not worth the trillion dollars. The military is not built to be easy to steer, that would be a massive vulnerability to foreign intelligence agencies.
My model of “steering” the military is a little different from that
It’s over a thousand partially autonomous headquarters, which each have their own interests. The right hand usually doesn’t know what the left is doing
Of the thousand+ headquarters, there’s probably 10 that have the necessary legitimacy and can get the necessary resources. Winning over any one of the 10 is a sufficient condition to getting the results I described above
In other words, you don’t have to steer the whole ship. Just a small part of it. I bet that can be done in 6 months
I don’t know about “providing legitimacy”, that’s like spending a trillion dollars in order to procure one single gold toilet seat. Gold toilet seats are great, due to the human signalling-based psychology, but it’s not worth the trillion dollars. The military is not built to be easy to steer, that would be a massive vulnerability to foreign intelligence agencies.
My model of “steering” the military is a little different from that It’s over a thousand partially autonomous headquarters, which each have their own interests. The right hand usually doesn’t know what the left is doing
Of the thousand+ headquarters, there’s probably 10 that have the necessary legitimacy and can get the necessary resources. Winning over any one of the 10 is a sufficient condition to getting the results I described above
In other words, you don’t have to steer the whole ship. Just a small part of it. I bet that can be done in 6 months