America Lost the first Battle of the Information Age
This past weekend we marked ninety nine years since the end of the war to end all wars, an act, which in hind sight seems presumptuous at best. If the past century has taught us any lesson about war it is that the we, as a species have a gritted determination to overcome any peace and seek out new weapons of conflict; using our incredible ability to improvise and adapt to create new ways of destroying each other, a fact of conflict that was thrust into the modern consciousness in the violence of the First World War. It was there that centuries old tactics met the modern genius of the industrial revolution. With the addition of massive artillery, poison gas, machine driven firepower, tanks, airplanes, the world saw first hand the true horror of which we as a civilization are capable. The suffering we inflicted on each other and ourselves was immense and even today, those muddy, blood soaked and gas covered fields still evoke from us, a generation far removed from the violenc...