Technology doesn’t win wars. Why the US pretends it does. | Sean McFate | Big Think

Technology doesn’t win wars. Why the US pretends it does. New videos DAILY: Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wars of the future will not even look like wars to the traditional mind. The worst threat is systemic. It’s growing entropy in the global system. Today, when Russia wants to shake up Europe — the world — its operatives weaponize refugees. That is, by bombing civilian centers, they create an avalanche of refugees, which, in turn, creates Brexit and the rise of right-wing national parties that want to disembowel the European Union. High-tech is not the savior that many futurists pretend it is when it comes to warfare. As a matter of fact, McFate contends, much of our investment in it is ludicrous. “You know, we have not fought, we have not had a strategic dogfight since the Korean War. So why do we need m