Sarah Paine

Slowly.

Oh, I've been working on it for years.

It'll be a culmination of previous research.

Starts in 1917.

It will end in 1991-ish.

Why 1917?

We may not have noticed that these crazy communists in Russia...

were serious, but they did declare war on the capitalist order.

It is really clear.

The documentation is just there.

And they were trying to fund people to overthrow governments in Europe all around the world immediately.

This is in the teens and then certainly in the 20s.

So just because they weren't remotely powerful enough to do it, but they were like, what is it, a Maoist phase one insurgency where people aren't paying attention.

They're like below the radar, but they're doing stuff.

um and it's going to be looking at all the strategies that the russians played that we played what medium plowers played of uh and what worked and what didn't and it's going to be organized around concepts uh to understand these things so on the one level if i can do it right it'll be a history of the cold war from a from one year to another year so there's that and then there's another one about strategy okay people are trying to achieve objectives and they're

trying different things and integrating different elements of national power.

So it'll be that.

And then what I found helpful in my own career are these concepts like limited and unlimited war, or primary adversary, primary theater, or frozen conflict, or veto player.

I find these things helpful.

And so I'm going to put as many of those things in there as possible.