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Jiang argues that drone swarms or suicide boats can turn the cost structure against American aircraft carriers, making a cheap attack package threaten a much more expensive platform.
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Aircraft Carriers
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...so the Americans won't risk that because we've seen that their aircraft carriers, including the Gerald Ford, Napier and Lincoln have intentionally stayed far..."
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Jiang says a direct Hormuz blockade would be hard because American carriers avoid Iranian ballistic missile range and fear a strategically devastating carrier loss.
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"...so the Americans won't risk that because we've seen that their aircraft carriers, including the Gerald Ford, Napier and Lincoln have intentionally stayed far..."
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"...what happened is iran sends its entire navy against this one aircraft carrier of the united states and then what happens the united states..."
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"...cost you maybe $20 million to blow up a $1 billion aircraft carrier. Does that make sense? And this is why Iran would win..."
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The interview begins with Iran and the petrodollar, but Jiang's answer keeps widening.
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Iran's missile strike is read not as a failed attack, but as a demonstration of asymmetrical strategy: choose the battlefield, satisfy four goals at once, and make the dominant power fight on terms it...
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