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The capacity to choose selective, calibrated moves that shape the opponent’s incentives even without dominance at the top of the ladder.
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escalation control
The capacity to choose selective, calibrated moves that shape the opponent’s incentives even without dominance at the top of the ladder.
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Iran has escalation control, in Jiang’s account, because its targeting options are more diverse and selective than U.S. and Israeli air-power escalation.
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"off the Strait of Hormuz, I can be strategic in how I close the Strait of Hormuz. For example, if you're a Chinese ship,..."
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"...that it has, it is much more diverse, which gives Iran escalation control over the situation. Okay? Do you guys understand this? All right...."
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"So in other words, okay, this is a really important idea. The U.S. and Iran have different military decision trees. Okay? All right? So..."
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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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