A near-peer or peer conflict between military superpowers (e.g., US-China over Taiwan) would resemble World War II but with the unprecedented factor that we have never seen a major war between two nuclear powers, creating a significant strategic unknown.
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General Mick RyanEvidence Quote
“would be very similar to what we saw in the second world war with some obvious differences uh clearly we've never had a major war between two nuclear powers that we haven't seen that before we've seen proxy wars between them might have been Vietnam or Korea and these kind of things uh and since August 1945 we haven't recrossed that Rubicon”
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Mick Ryan: This Is What The Next Great Power Conflict Will Look Like— Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik PreslCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:55:20 AM
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