The ISDN standard was first defined in 1988.
Five years later the Clipper Chip was proposed.
The result of the First Crypto War was Status Quo Ante Bellum.
Everyone has celebrated the lack of encryption as a victory?
To who would this serve?
The ISDN standard itself is a curious thing, according to a /wikipedia/ article on caller ID spoofing, it is rumored that Paris Hilton hacked into Lindsay Lohan's voicemail. Around the same time that the NSA began warrantless wiretapping? The NSA did have input on the 2G cipher, so why would they be okay with increasing the arbitrary nature of the world?
Afterall, privacy for the sake of privacy and freedom for the sake of freedom is sort of pointless. Personally I'm against tyranny, as a result of personal experiences, even thought about how Tor could be improved. But all tyranny is simply the arbitary whims of a tyrant, nothing more.
The NSA seems to be achieving control for the sake of control... but seems to be doing so in a way that would blind the other government organs to crime?
Why is the world structured the way that it is, and to who does it serve?
The problem with writing an after action report of the First Crypto War is that apparently everyone involved are idiots or shills, and the only arguments that ever convinced me were by the academics who supported the clipper chip.
And then a few academics found that there is a problem with the Clipper chip protocol, the 16-bit hash was insecure. Apparently the NSA cannot write good protocols. Should've been a bigger scandal, it'd be like a trillion dollar project to build airplanes that cannot fly.
Thus no logical conclusion can be formed as of this time, unless one is willing to entertain rumors about the Deep State.