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In Jiang's war model, economics means resource management: winning as cheaply and quickly as possible.
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In Jiang's war model, economics means resource management: winning as cheaply and quickly as possible.
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model
Jiang's model says winning a war requires attention to three major issues: economics, organization, and logistics.
definition
Jiang defines the economics of war as resource management: trying to win as cheaply and quickly as possible.
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diagnosis
Jiang argues that the Pentagon's optics-and-narrative habits may work against Somalis and Iraqis but are a major problem against Iran, where the United States would need total war focused on economics, organization, and logistics.
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Jiang identifies organization, logistics, and economics as the three things that win wars.
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diagnosis
Jiang identifies philosophy and classical economics as weak points in his analysis and says he will use the summer to study them more deeply.
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model
Human history is driven by the interplay of economics, biology, and religion; if a religion fails to meet economic and biological needs, people abandon or change it, but economic need alone is insufficient.
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"First thing you want to look at is economics. Okay? Economics. Second thing you want to look at is organization. The third thing you..."
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"...now, the Americans are not concerned with any of these issues, economics, organization, and logistics. But these are the three major issues that you..."
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"...against Iranians you need total war. You need to focus on economics organization and logistics. Stop doing this crap of optics okay and narrative...."
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"they should be thinking about are organization logistics and economics. Because these are the three things that win wars. Alright. Okay. Any questions guys?"
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"I will also need to study economics in depth, as well. So Adam Smith and other economists, because that really right now is the..."
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"...other people. But that does not mean that we are not economic and biological animals. Okay? They all interplay together. Do you understand? So..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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Jiang explains the channel from the inside: a teacher leaving Beijing, watching Iran and Israel move toward world war, and trying to turn a student review archive into a new history that can explain...
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