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Leadership and governing capacity that lets Iran coordinate itself during war.
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command and control
Leadership and governing capacity that lets Iran coordinate itself during war.
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Decapitation attacks remove leadership and command-and-control, limiting the state's capacity to govern itself.
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Jiang defines shock and awe as a doctrine that treats armies as hierarchies: cut off the head through air power, surveillance, and special forces, and the body collapses.
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"...is you're removing the elite. Okay. Or what we call command and control. Okay. You're basically limiting the capacity of Iran to govern itself...."
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"the three problem areas that you have to watch as this war develops over the next few weeks over the next few months. Okay?..."
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"...awe is that all militaries are hierarchies. Okay? You have command and control. So you have the head, and then you have the body,..."
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"They can see everything on Earth. They can see everything on the Earth. We have technology that allows us to eavesdrop on all electronic..."
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"...There are 31 provinces in the country with their own command and control that is localized."
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"...bit of a conflict between two two layers of the command and control structure where you have the president of the United States and..."
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"...Okay? And so, what this means is that right now, command and control in Iran is decentralized. There's no one person telling everyone what..."
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"...body collapses. You basically go in and you destroy the command and control. You destroy the command and control center of the military. That's..."
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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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