Most of the scenarios depend on someone behaving in an irrational way. For example, if China and the US are at a point of cyberwar standoff, what benefit is there for China to launch an attack that would escalate into full war? There's an equal chance that the US would defeat China in such a war, and China would lose much of the global dominance that they're currently acquiring. To me, it's no different than the US vs. USSR nuclear scenarios that never came to be. Similarly, a scenario where the Taliban suddenly conducts surprisingly organized and sophisticated attacks while the US conducts widespread bombings out of some sense of revenge is equally implausible.
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