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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
Iran's counterstrategy of dispersing force into militias and cells so that leadership decapitation cannot end the war.
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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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"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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"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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"...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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"So yeah, that's a great point. Okay? So you're actually right. Even though they stopped building pyramids, this civilization would go on for another..."
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"is to take all the centralized powers of the pharaoh and then devolve it into the priesthood and creating a priest bureaucracy. Okay? Which..."
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"So, let's go back to last class. We talked about the Bronze Age collapse, right? And we talked about how, in about 1200 BCE,..."
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"It's completely dark to us, okay? So, the second thing that happened. The Greeks became illiterate. The third thing that happened is... The Greeks..."
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"...how do you respond to that? You respond to that using decentralization. There are 31 provinces in the country with their own command and..."
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"...the French Revolution, it transitions into a nation state. Okay? From decentralization into centralization, basically. That's the first major change. Second major change is..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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