In Part XI of The Low-Cost Destruction Threshold Doctrine, Nicolin Decker examines the legal and institutional disciplines required to govern force when military capability, civilian infrastructure, software, autonomy, and strategic precedent increasingly overlap.

At the center of the episode is the Four-Separation Test: the legality of resorting to force, the lawfulness of conduct during hostilities, responsibility for a particular attack, and the broader systems consequences of demonstrated capability must remain analytically distinct.

🔹 Core Insight

The legality of the cause does not determine the legality of every act undertaken in its name, and the illegality of a particular act does not necessarily determine the legality of the cause from which it arose.

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