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The 216 BCE battle Jiang treats as Hannibal's great tactical victory and Rome's greatest test.
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Battle of Cannae
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Jiang says the attack recycled trivial or old controversies against him, including his claim that the Battle of Cannae may be historically fabricated, which made the pile-on feel scripted rather than organic.
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"so patrick david um so he actually got in touch on monday he wanted to interview me he wanted to be he wanted me..."
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"...this 80,000 soldier army at something called, at a place called Cannae. And they fight something called the Battle of Cannae in 216 BCE."
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"And what follows is the greatest massacre in history, militarily, until World War I. The army of 80,000 that the Romans sent lost almost..."
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"...no sense any military historian can tell you that oh battle of Cannae when Hannibal was able to kill 80,000 I don't know exactly..."
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"...this is the most famous battle. This is called the Battle of Cannae. Okay? And this is what we call a double involvement strategy,..."
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"...all the Roman armies who are against him. In the Battle of Cannae, he has killed at least 20 % of the Roman adult..."
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"...was the Hannibal invasion of Rome. And remember at the Battle of Cannae, Rome lost about 20 % of its adult male population."
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Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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