Seth Keshel

It's an interesting series.

It's almost like exactly what you're talking about here.

That's desperation.

This stuff's going to get more and more crazy as AI advances and also looking at how human warfare has advanced.

I'm not sure how many of you guys are familiar with fifth-generation warfare theories.

General Flynn and Boone Cutler wrote the book Introduction to 5G Warfare.

And first-generation warfare is people slaying each other in fields with iron.

And then you move into the second generation, which is gunpowder.

Third generation, different ways to maneuver the enemy, planes and tanks, World War I. And then fourth generation is nuclear warfare.

And now fifth generation is where we are, where I can't really see a major U.S.-China conflict militarily.

You're going to have to nuke them, right?

Well, so what's old is new again.

A number of things you just mentioned.

500 years ago, one of the best-selling books of all time by Machiavelli, The Prince, talks exactly about how to deal with what we've really failed in, what my military career spun out because I no longer believed in counterinsurgency being a successful thing.

But as far as diseases go, interesting book out.

It's been out a long time.

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Diamond.

The Europeans that came over to the New World eradicated the native populations because they couldn't deal with the germs.

They couldn't deal with the diseases.

The fighter flight has been the same even with naval warfare as well.