I love your analysis -- very clearly, confining control-mechanisms to local centers makes it very hard for a disaster caused by one or a few individuals to affect everyone else, and even harder for would-be conquerors, terrorists, etc. to wreak havoc by attacking any one center of control. In another context, consider World War II and the problem presented by the Swiss to the German high command. Germany decided that attempting to conquer Switzerland was just not worth it, based on the fact that every. Single. Swiss. Household. had at least one firearm, and someone who knew how to load it, use it, and care for it. To conquer Switzerland -- or try to, anyway -- the German army would have had to fight door-to-door throughout Switzerland, battling every household, on enemy territory that the enemy knew far better than they did. No way. The Finns presented a similar problem to the Russians, I believe, or rather, one Finn, Simo Hayha -- talk about local centers of control! This was also the reason President Truman finally decided
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You may find one of the article I linked to on that video interesting. I used Davies' idea as the basis for part of what I was saying.
http://strike-the-root.com/92/davies/davies9.html
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