prediction
If the United States wants to win the Iran war, Jiang says it must use ground troops because it cannot afford to fight a real war primarily with expensive airplanes.
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Cost Benefit
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Does that make sense guys? The problem is that the United States have an inverse pyramid. Okay? Meaning that the cost pyramid in the..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Does that make sense guys? The problem is that the United States have an inverse pyramid. Okay? Meaning that the cost pyramid in the..."
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"Does that make sense guys? The problem is that the United States have an inverse pyramid. Okay? Meaning that the cost pyramid in the..."
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"...in order to save a life of a soldier. Eventually, this cost, benefit analysis will blow up on you, okay? Okay, does that make..."
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"...known for their sharp business skills. And so they do a cost -benefit analysis and be like, you know what? This war is going..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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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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