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| 54 |
| Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? |
| ohn Masters stood up to address General Stanley A. McChrystal |
| i ran the mat we it ry son eaten the are |
| Afghanistan. The main war lasted only eight weeks, but this did not |
| end the conflict. A level of tribal violence and insurgent warfare rumbled |
| on for years, killing around 30 people a week. Masters' job was to explain |
| the dynamics of Afghanistan and provide politicians and military |
| commanders a framework to understand what was going on. |
| Think about your country for a moment. What maintains the fabric |
| of society - police, family, the local charity club, church, newspapers, the |
| broadcast media? All these institutions work to keep us civilized, but what |
| happens if a country loses them? There are institutions in Afghanistan, |
| good and bad: tribes, gangs, corrupt officials, families. Masters had spent |
| a year investigating these interactions, and questioning the returning |
| commanders. He and his team believed that understanding the dynamics |
| of the conflict was the key to bringing peace to Afghanistan. |
| If you live in an industrialized country, you rarely see society |
| without its civilizing web in place. One interesting 'experiment' that |
| shows what happens when it fails was the 1976 traffic police strike |
| in Finland. Finland is a fantastically law abiding country where most |
| people obey both the written and unwritten laws. During the strike, this |
| behavior changed. Many people began parking illegally but refrained |
| from blocking the roads. A few took advantage of the absence of police to |
| drive incredibly fast - twice the national limit. These would be labeled as |
| 'defectors' in game theory. Without traffic police, a different automotive |
| General Stanley A. McChrystal |
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