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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that begs the question of you know there's this fifth generational warfare where um it might not be as obvious as say World War..."
Akela's term for conflict that is less obvious than world-war trench fighting and more centered on psychology, manipulation, and hybrid methods. Conflict conducted less through direct great-power battlefield collision and more through psychological pressure, wedge issues, media, and manipulation of social cohesion.
Akela's next prompt assumes the world is heading toward major conflict and asks Jiang to distinguish between conventional war and psychological or hybrid warfare.
He says warfare in the nuclear age is primarily about maintaining control over one's own population while diminishing cohesion inside rival societies.
"...that begs the question of you know there's this fifth generational warfare where um it might not be as obvious as say World War..."
"...it can mean the destruction of humanity so I think fifth generation warfare is much more likely okay so so it's important to understand..."
"...there's also there's always a risk of a nuclear war so warfare is really about now the capacity to maintain control of your population..."
"...in in europe right so um so that's the nature of warfare today and so what you're trying to do really is trying to..."
Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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