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Re:OpenAI is working with the US military now by justinclift on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:15PM (#39037242)
Well, the US abandoned 100% of the land it had captured, and the enemy it was fighting against then took over that land.

Isn't that pretty much the definition of losing the fight?

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Re:OpenAI is working with the US military now by labster on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:40PM (#39037484)
No that is absolutely not the definition. You win a war when you meet your political goals. The military didn’t lose, the grand strategy changed.

This isn’t sophistry, war is just extension of politics by other means. The vast majority of unfixable problems the US faced in Afghanistan were political, you can’t kill your way to a functional multiparty democracy.

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Re:OpenAI is working with the US military now by justinclift on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:13PM (#39037743)
Heh Heh Heh. So you're saying both sides won that war then? ;)
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Re:OpenAI is working with the US military now by labster on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:14AM (#39038168)
No. I’m saying the military didn’t lose the war, American and Afghani politicians did. And not because we decided to leave, but because there was no strong strategic reason to be there after the primary casus belli was accomplished: the elimination of Al-Qaeda from the region.
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