What happens when we forget about the dangers of kinetic war? David relates trigger points for World War III in the Cold War, close calls of accidental nuclear war in the 1980s, and the constant readiness to be the first to strike. Having more kinetic weapons to strike first is seen as the “escalatory logic” that promotes the destructive notion that only the attacker has the advantage. This is the “false logic” risking millions of lives and immense destruction that kinetic weapons continue to pose.

Episode 5: The Zombie Fallacy

The Kinetic War Podcast aims to answer one very urgent question, why doesn’t American win its wars and what happened in Afghanistan? With the largest, most powerful military in the world, America spends billions if not trillions of dollars to continue these armed conflicts and what do they have to show for it? For a boots-on-the-ground, front-line explanation, the Kinetic War podcast presents David Wood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of two books. David has covered war in Africa, the Middle East and Europe for Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Newhouse News Service, the Baltimore Sun, and for six years, he was the senior military correspondent for Huffington Post. He examines why America chooses Kinetic War and the ugly dynamics of armed conflict versus the alternative of soft powers like the American economy, the culture, or the genius of information technology, that could reshape the world for all human benefit. Hosted by Paul Wood, this 10-part series is a gripping and revealing exploration of military conflicts, with insights that change what we define and believe is winnable when wars go kinetic.