Maybe “warfare” is the wrong metaphor here, but there’s a kind of constant competition for idea salience since policy makers can only know or care about so many possible ideas. Out of all the stuff they could think about, they will maybe consider 3 options max to respond to a crisis, not 10 or 100, so the question becomes how does an idea get to become one of those 3.
Maybe “warfare” is the wrong metaphor here, but there’s a kind of constant competition for idea salience since policy makers can only know or care about so many possible ideas. Out of all the stuff they could think about, they will maybe consider 3 options max to respond to a crisis, not 10 or 100, so the question becomes how does an idea get to become one of those 3.