Intelligence agencies and governments love their inflatable tanks.
They are cheap and easy, like their inflatable currencies.
But they don’t hold up to close inspection and require constant injections of hot air.
Inflatable tanks, propaganda, and fiat currency are all lies.
Government doesn’t have the luxury of lies anymore.
Lying about the truth is like lying about the existence of your tanks.
If your enemy no longer believes your lies, they’ll puncture your tanks and roll right in.
Surprisingly, in hybrid war, the truth is the most powerful weapon.
Its a shame all our leaders are pathological liars.
TLDR; For military strategists:
A ghost army can only exist as a minority constituent of a real army.
Look up the difference between Batesian and Mullerian Mimicry, our civilisation might depend on it.
“So let me set free, with the sword of my youth, from the castle of darkness, the power of truth.”