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Complex War: Signal, Conflict, and the Collapse of Resolution

Post author By G
Post date Mar 22, 2026
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The current conflict involving Iran is not a single discrete event but an escalation within an already coupled regional system. Tensions between Iran, Israel, and aligned actors have intensified through reciprocal strikes, proxy involvement, and pressure on infrastructure and logistics networks across the Middle East. What appears as sudden escalation can be understood more clearly […]

Tags communication systems, complex systems, energy systems, entropy, escalation dynamics, feedback loops, geopolitics, global supply chains, information dynamics, Iran Israel tensions, Middle East conflict, narrative compression, resolution collapse, signal propagation, Strait of Hormuz, strategic instability, systems philosophy, systems theory, uncertainty

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No Good War

Post author By G
Post date Mar 5, 2026
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There is a familiar habit among commentators and observers to reach backward into history whenever the present becomes frightening, as though the archive might reassure us that the machinery of civilisation has seen worse and survived. Maybe it has. But what we are dealing with now looks less like a familiar historical episode and more […]