Battlefields are chaotic and constantly changing, and their soldier inhabitants are filled with adrenalin, stunned by horror and fear, and chronically deprived of sleep. Reports by subordinates are skewed or corrupted by poor communication skills, personal viewpoints, confirmation bias, and a wish to report what their superior wishes to hear. And, in the age of advanced electronic sensors and communications, commanders are usually overloaded with data, and faced with the choice of either making intuitive decisions without considering facts, or delaying their decisions on a rapidly changing battlefield while underlings try to bring order to the massive amounts of data available.
"Fog of war" applies just as well to too much information as it does to a lack of information or erroneous information. By the time you sift through a bunch of kind-of-contemporaneous video clips to determine objective truth, the battlefield has moved on and you need new information in order to make decisions.
Eric, bro, society has never been more detached from reality. Forget fog of war, we are in perpetual fog. There are no gatekeepers for information and the dumbest among us now have an amplified voice. I used to enjoy having political debates. I thought they were an important element to an open society, but I donтАЩt engage anyone anymore. How can you have a debate when you donтАЩt share the same facts / reality? Anyway, you get the point.
As an ignoramus, I don't understand how there can be a fog of war in the age of cell phones/cameras and the Internet.
The more cameras, cell phones, and internet participants, the more varied, numerous, and ineradicable the lies.
Alas.
Battlefields are chaotic and constantly changing, and their soldier inhabitants are filled with adrenalin, stunned by horror and fear, and chronically deprived of sleep. Reports by subordinates are skewed or corrupted by poor communication skills, personal viewpoints, confirmation bias, and a wish to report what their superior wishes to hear. And, in the age of advanced electronic sensors and communications, commanders are usually overloaded with data, and faced with the choice of either making intuitive decisions without considering facts, or delaying their decisions on a rapidly changing battlefield while underlings try to bring order to the massive amounts of data available.
"Fog of war" applies just as well to too much information as it does to a lack of information or erroneous information. By the time you sift through a bunch of kind-of-contemporaneous video clips to determine objective truth, the battlefield has moved on and you need new information in order to make decisions.
Eric, bro, society has never been more detached from reality. Forget fog of war, we are in perpetual fog. There are no gatekeepers for information and the dumbest among us now have an amplified voice. I used to enjoy having political debates. I thought they were an important element to an open society, but I donтАЩt engage anyone anymore. How can you have a debate when you donтАЩt share the same facts / reality? Anyway, you get the point.