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Incredible article. "The commander who has worked through this learns to see the way an eye adjusts to darkness, not by getting better light but by staying long enough to use what light there is. ... Clausewitz called what unfolds when you refused to notice friction a “war on paper,” a plan that proceeds without resistance because everything that connected it to the world it was supposed to act on has been taken out. Air power is uniquely vulnerable to this. The pilot never sees what the bomb hits. The analyst works from imagery, coordinates, and databases. The entire enterprise is mediated by representations of the target, not the target itself, which means the gap between the package and the world can widen without anyone in the process feeling it." https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain