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Jiang contrasts four-star generals' personal planes with veterans on food stamps to argue that military bureaucracy rewards commanders while soldiers lack basics.
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Jiang contrasts four-star generals' personal planes with veterans on food stamps to argue that military bureaucracy rewards commanders while soldiers lack basics.
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Tang reliance on powerful generals creates the conditions for the An Lushan Rebellion and later leaves the dynasty vulnerable to Huang Chao.
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The Song invested power in imperial bureaucracy to avoid the Tang problem of overmighty generals.
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"...one to four okay the biggest problem is the increase in generals okay so you can see three and four -star generals have increased..."
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"and he writes about the perks of a four -star general a four -star has an airplane a three -star often doesn't in a..."
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"...problems with the Tang Dynasty. So there's a heavy reliance on generals to fight wars, and this will eventually lead to the An Lushan..."
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"...of the Tang, where you give too much power to a general, and the general will rebel, okay? So a lot of power. At..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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