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Jiang says excessive cooperation between Hollywood and the Pentagon explains why Americans favor spectacle-driven military action.
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American Culture
Jiang says excessive cooperation between Hollywood and the Pentagon explains why Americans favor spectacle-driven military action.
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"for proper organization and they are trying to maintain logistics. Okay? The Americans are just trying to win the war in the most Hollywood..."
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"...achievement. So to get a sense of the essence of Anglo -American culture, I'm going to read to you a passage from Paradise Lost...."
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"...it's really, through soft power, convinced everyone to believe that Anglo -American culture is really the best in the world."
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"...argument that Russian and German culture is far superior to Anglo -American culture. But everyone, especially young people in the world today, believes that..."
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"-American culture, even though it dominates the world, it's pretty lackluster. It's very narrow -minded. It's very practical. It's pretty mediocre. Okay? And if..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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