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Hidden Brain
It was written by Barbara Walter, who works as an analyst for the CIA and looks at political stability around the world. She argues that political violence in the US will not look like the first civil war, with armies in a field, but rather an increase in small militant groups who mobilize and destabilize the status quo.
There's a book called How Civil War Starts, and it's written by a woman named Barbara Walter.
— Episode: US 2.0: Living With Our Differences
Episode: US 2.0: Living With Our Differences
It was written by Barbara Walter, who works as an analyst for the CIA and looks at political stability around the world. She argues that political violence in the US will not look like the first civil war, with armies in a field, but rather an increase in small militant groups who mobilize and destabilize the status quo.
There's a book called How Civil War Starts, and it's written by a woman named Barbara Walter.
She, by the way, works as an analyst for the CIA and looks at political stability around the world.
And so they have metrics where they sort of track the data. And her position is that when we think about our first civil war, what we think about is armies in a field with muskets and uniforms. And her position is that that's not how political violence will take place here.
That one of the things we're seeing here in the US is an increase in small militant groups who mobilize and do whatever they can to destabilize the status quo.
And so we're not seeing the violence, obviously, that we see in Gaza today, but we are seeing our own versions of escalation of political violence, which are highly concerning.
