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Governing Proxies Without Command Authority
Season 2
Episode 6
Published 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Description
States don’t need command authority to govern proxies—but they do need leverage. The real mechanisms are sustainment, intelligence/targeting support, sanctuary and logistics corridors, and narrative discipline. Those tools can keep proxy violence “below threshold,” but they also produce predictable failures: agency slack, autonomization, deniability collapse, and blowback.