Brilliant piece on the narrative architecture of security policy. Your framing of the tariff volatility example really exposes the feedback loop betwen perception and material outcomes in ways most security analysis just glosses over. If subjective interpretations can move markets that dramatically, then the entire distinction between imagined threats and real threats starts to collapes operationally. The Afghanistan point is especially sharp, we're still applying a Cold War threat map to a region where the actual incentive structures have completely shifted.
Brilliant piece on the narrative architecture of security policy. Your framing of the tariff volatility example really exposes the feedback loop betwen perception and material outcomes in ways most security analysis just glosses over. If subjective interpretations can move markets that dramatically, then the entire distinction between imagined threats and real threats starts to collapes operationally. The Afghanistan point is especially sharp, we're still applying a Cold War threat map to a region where the actual incentive structures have completely shifted.
Thank you so much for the feedback.