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Jiang rejects ritualized warfare and The Art of War as rules for a controlled game; actual conquest requires total commitment, promotion of talent, happy soldiers, attacks on civilian centers and supply lines, and refusal to respect elite taboos.
"...at this time in history, Shunzi wrote the book, The Art of War. This is one of the stupidest books ever written. Okay?"
"I guarantee you, if you follow this book, you're going to lose the war badly because this is, this is really about how to..."
"So if a general arises who is very innovative, who's really talented, you kill him because he's a threat to you. Okay? So the..."
"...The first of course is 孙 子 兵 法 The Art of War by 孙 子 but also 三 国 演 义 The Rom..."
"...to what's going on. They wrote the book of the art of war. So we can't take at face value that they are not..."
"...not going to do it all right it's a good art of war we're only going"
"...Sun Tzu will at this time write his book the art of war So in a process that is open cooperative competition eventually one..."
"...remember in China we have something called Shunzi Bingfa. The art of war by Shunzi. That is a manual on palace intrigue. Right? How..."
A university lecture becomes a warning to China: tactics, utility, and clever people are not enough.
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable method, then uses it to argue that Soleimani's killing made a U.S.-Iran war structurally inevitable, that eschatology is not prophecy but a strategic plan, that Odessa is...
China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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