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Iran's counterstrategy of dispersing force into militias and cells so that leadership decapitation cannot end the war.
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decentralization
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Glossary
Used here for a political-religious structure in which local authorities can sustain resistance even if the center is struck.
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diagnosis
He says U.S. shock and awe against Iran has failed because Iranian leadership, military, and factories are decentralized or hidden after 20 years of preparation.
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In a centralized system Homer would have become a propagandist; in decentralized Greece, demand for entertainment and knowledge allowed him to become civilization's father-poet.
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Iran's main counterstrategy is decentralization: embedded militias and cells can survive leadership decapitation, making occupation and installation of a new military regime necessary for U.S. victory.
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Feudalism is explained as an economy and political order built around maintaining expensive knights and fortified local lords, leaving the king closer to a figurehead than an absolute ruler.
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After the Old Kingdom, Egypt stabilized by devolving Pharaoh's centralized powers into a priest bureaucracy and importing new ideas, leading to renewed creativity and innovation.
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After the Bronze Age collapse, Greece lost centralization, literacy, and wealth, entering a period Jiang identifies as the Dark Ages from about 1000 to 600 BCE.
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Jiang says Iran's decentralized religious authority means that even if the center is hit, local clerical power can keep resistance alive the way Iraq could not.
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Jiang summarizes the strategic balance as American bombs, propaganda, and dollars being offset by Iranian faith, terrain, and decentralization, making the war unwinnable.
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"Okay? And that's what's happening in Ukraine. What I will show you is that Iran will be the first 21st century war. Okay? So..."
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"...very important the third thing that's uh very important is just decentralization meaning that in theory the the alatola kamenei is a supreme leader..."
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"brain when you look at direction the burayauate uh where do you really want arrive in to iran because you know where are uh..."
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"...negated by iran's three major advantages which is faith terrain and decentralization and so from a game theory perspective this war that america wants..."
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"So listen, I mean, Satoshi Nakamoto in Japanese, it literally translates. It's into central intelligence. Right. And or central wisdom, central intelligence, basically. So..."
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"So if you just. Like, look at these three questions and you just do some first person thinking, the logical the only logical conclusion..."
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"the system okay and this is the most efficient writing system in the world it's really easy to learn as you know uh from..."
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"we will discuss homer today and homer is famous because he wrote two books the iliad and the odyssey actually he didn't write the..."
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"another big prediction that i've made in the past is that america is headed towards the second civil war um but unlike the first..."
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"...attack. And I think the main counterstrategy is the idea of decentralization. You've got these different militias, different cells embedded in different parts of..."
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"Again, this is pretty self -sufficient. The Vikings are able to build their own ships very quickly and repair them. And they are able..."
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"...feudalism stick is the idea of castles. So feudalism is about decentralization, where the knights and the lords have control over the local territory,..."
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