The Realist Warmonger's Playbook Feb 2025

<p>The Realist Warmonger's Playbook Feb 2025 Edition<br>Author Bio: tedkostis @ linkedin<br><br>Contents<br>Foreword by the Author2<br>1 Technology dictates Geopolitics4<br>Transparent Battlespace5<br>Military Concept of First Strike Advantage8<br>Reassessing the First Strike Concept: Russia's Consideration of Russian-Speaking Compatriots in Donbass13<br>Military Concept of the Tempo of War17<br>Military Concept of Fully Autonomous Weapons20<br>Military Concept of Super (AI-enabled) Swarms24<br>Space Warfare: A Critical Disruptor in Future Warfare29<br>Hypersonic Missiles: A Persistent Battlefield Disruptor34<br>Grey Zone Tactics: A Persistent Strategy for Offensive Realism39<br>The Evolution of Stealth in Military Strategy: A Perspective on Offensive Realism44<br>US Energy Wars Against Europe Part II: No More Russian Gas via Ukraine 49<br>NO IMAGE: Fiber Optic Drones & their immunity to Electronic Warfare Jamming53<br>Game Theory on the End of Hostilities in Ukraine58<br>Wars of Necessity and of Choice through the Realist Prism63<br>Germany in Peril Without Russian Energy: Is the End of the Euro Imminent?73<br>From Banana Republics to Peer Competitors: Can U.S. Disruption Tactics Succeed Against Great Powers Like China?77<br>The Rise of Agentic AI on the Modern Battlefield: Transforming Warfare and Ethics81<br>The Agentic AI Robot General: A Paradigm shift86<br>The term Agentic-AI in military use88<br><br>2 Newspeak90<br>Newspeak: More Relevant Than Ever in Today's World91<br><br>3 Definitions of Realism97<br>Structural Realism: Power & Anarchy in International Relations98</p>