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With such a consistent reluctance to use these weapons of extraordinary destructive power, it is understandable that decisionmakers would search—sometimes systematically, sometimes impulsively—for nonnuclear alternatives to resolve conflicts and crises. And in the last decade, the availability of sophisticated space and cyberweapons has opened additional options for government leaders to consider.
Cross-Domain Deterrence
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To grasp why people bury themselves in debt you don’t need to study interest rates; you need to study the history of greed, insecurity, and optimism. To get why investors sell out at the bottom of a bear market you don’t need to study the math of expected future returns; you need to think about the agony of looking at your family and wondering if your investments are imperiling their future.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
First-half-of-life religion is almost always about various types of purity codes or “thou shalt nots” to keep us up, clear, clean, and together, like good Boy and Girl Scouts. A certain kind of “purity” and self-discipline is also “behovely,” at least for a while in the first half of life, as the Jewish Torah brilliantly presents.
Falling Upward
Richard Rohr
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