Guy Goldstein on the war and more

Here.

Plus a mention of my book and podcast:

October 7 was the paradigm shift. Hamas had been escalating for years, from genocide accusations during Cast Lead in 2008-2009 to the first coordinated cognitive-kinetic front in 2021, where narrative operations ran in parallel with rocket barrages. The October 7 attack was designed from inception to trigger a cognitive campaign whose returns would dwarf the military costs. It worked. Israel paid a political and reputational price out of all proportion to the kinetic threat Hamas ever posed.

Iran watched all of it. It funded most of it. And it built the infrastructure to deploy everything it learned at a scale none of its proxies could match.

I wrote about cognitive-primary warfare doctrine in August 2025 and discussed it on Warren Kinsella’s podcast that same month. Kinsella’s forthcoming book and documentary examine the same phenomenon. After the shock of October 7th had passed, it was the only rational explanation for Hamas’ actions, and it was effective as hell.