The Noguerol-Marrero framework clarifying how strategic competition now operates below armed conflict is really sharp. What stands out is the shift from symbolic posturing to functional leverage - Cuba matters not as Cold War nostalgia but because intelligence, telecom, and infrastructure create realtime strategic costs. I watched something simlar play out in cybersec consulting where clients finally got that the threat wasn't invasion but dependency. The Taiwan-Caribbean linkage is especially smart because it forces policymakers to think multi-theater rather than linear.
The Cold War never went away like Covid it mutated, the advent of technology which now has made itself intrinsically part of all we do, from medicine, communications, banking, telecomunications is the new battlefield. No longer an army of infantrymen occupying a certain region of the world but a complicated web that reaches into every household of every citizen of the world. This is more powerful since it is in your face, in your daily routines from the things you buy, to the use of your phone, computer and all is captured, processed and exploited. Add to that the handling over of physical facilities in your own country: ports, astronomical and communications sites. and subscribe the countries to unpayable loans for infrastructure development and you have succesfully gained control.
The Noguerol-Marrero dogma, can be applied to many other parts of the world, not only our Western Hemisphere. The common factor in all is China. They have rapidly learned to navigate and exploit this realm w/o having to put a single soldier on the ground
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The Noguerol-Marrero framework clarifying how strategic competition now operates below armed conflict is really sharp. What stands out is the shift from symbolic posturing to functional leverage - Cuba matters not as Cold War nostalgia but because intelligence, telecom, and infrastructure create realtime strategic costs. I watched something simlar play out in cybersec consulting where clients finally got that the threat wasn't invasion but dependency. The Taiwan-Caribbean linkage is especially smart because it forces policymakers to think multi-theater rather than linear.
The Cold War never went away like Covid it mutated, the advent of technology which now has made itself intrinsically part of all we do, from medicine, communications, banking, telecomunications is the new battlefield. No longer an army of infantrymen occupying a certain region of the world but a complicated web that reaches into every household of every citizen of the world. This is more powerful since it is in your face, in your daily routines from the things you buy, to the use of your phone, computer and all is captured, processed and exploited. Add to that the handling over of physical facilities in your own country: ports, astronomical and communications sites. and subscribe the countries to unpayable loans for infrastructure development and you have succesfully gained control.
The Noguerol-Marrero dogma, can be applied to many other parts of the world, not only our Western Hemisphere. The common factor in all is China. They have rapidly learned to navigate and exploit this realm w/o having to put a single soldier on the ground