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8 timestamped hits 1 source reading 2 extracted notes Aliases: civilian-populations

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Civilian Population

He defines the historical evolution of warfare as moving from killing soldiers, to destroying civilian production, to using civilian dissent against the state.

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Jiang claims World War II was won by the Allies because they could destroy German and Japanese productive capacity while America and the Soviet Union preserved theirs.

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The Population Becomes The Weapon

2026-04-28, day precision · Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State

Transcript

"of the 19th century how traditionally wars wars were fought for hundreds of hundreds of years within sort of centuries something happened which is..."

The Population Becomes The Weapon

2026-04-28, day precision · Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State

Transcript

"...this is going to create a lot of pressure on the civilian population they'll be very angry they might protest against the government okay..."

Control Beats Dominance

2026-03-10, day precision · Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation

Transcript

"...regime change. It could mean economy collapses. It could mean the civilian population starves. Okay? It could mean anything. But because there's so much..."

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The Population Becomes The Weapon

2026-04-28, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...

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