Darryl Cooper
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5,155 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
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Um and that sort of tends to lead to a very top-heavy kind of aristocratic society where all the war-making power is gathered up into these large institutions that that can defend their boundaries, you know, uh against interlopers pretty well.
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And um, when you got up to the late 19th, early 20th century, and you know, you look at like the first, the first and second world wars, I mean, you have just these examples of they
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institution of the nation states sort of reaching their absolute apex in terms of, you know, if you just think of it in terms of state capacity, their ability to marshal men and resources over sustained periods of time.
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Um just incredibly efficient, you know, relative to anything that that has had been seen in history and arguably has been, you know, i i is around today.
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Um
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And in the twentieth century, the century that, you know, America and the second half of it um didn't win a lot of wars, but we were still sort of militarily dominant in some sense, I think most people would, you know, would think of it that way.
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Um, you know, that was the era of
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bomber fleets and uh aircraft carriers and just these massive systems that it y you know, really the only institution on the planet that could field the the the apex weapon systems were not just nation states, but only the most powerful nation states could do it.
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Just they're the only ones with uh the wherewithal and if you didn't have that, then you were relegated to being
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A member of NATO, you know, a member of the Warsaw Pact, maybe a you know, uh um a third uh part of the third world, but you weren't gonna be a major player.
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And
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Today it really seems like we're kind of moving into I know you read a a lot about this, um, that the twenty first century, that that pendulum is really swinging back in the other direction.
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We're now
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You know, these gigantic institutions that you had to have if you were gonna field the weapon systems of the twentieth century that allowed you to compete on a global level.
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You know, you had to create these gigantic, hyper complex, lumbering systems that now that technologies uh and and and some other changes have come along that have put a tremendous amount of destructive power in the hands of individuals and small groups.
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Um
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You know, a lot of these nation states are in a very bad position.
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And it and it all you know, it seems like I g I guess like, you know, I I sort of
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When I when I'm getting emotional about the the failures of the American military's procurement system, uh, you know, I always think it's just that, you know, people don't wanna reform it.
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But I'm not so sure that th these gigantic institutions, you know, the twentieth century really can reform themselves in that direction.
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