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Jiang argues Cannae is suspect because ancient surrounded armies should become energized, the tactic lacks ancient parallels, and no archaeological site has been found.
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Historical method
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Jiang treats history as useful only if it can explain the present and help predict what will happen next.
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Jiang says history has failed as a discipline when it cannot use past patterns to explain Trump, Ukraine, or the Middle East and predict what comes next.
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Alexander says Asimov's psychohistory takes predictive reasoning too far because one cannot assume the past simply repeats itself, even though historical study still lets us learn from earlier societies such as fifth-century Athens.
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Alexander says people go wrong when they turn predictive history into a statistical science, and he explicitly argues that Jiang's approach is not that kind of deterministic cycle model.
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Jiang says usable history must connect the past into a coherent human story, explain the present, and predict the future.
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Jiang defines Predictive History as an attempt to systematize historical interpretation so one can tell whether a reading of history is right or wrong.
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Jiang says conventional history is flawed because it does not generate predictions that can test whether the model is right.
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"Okay? The second major battle. And this is the most famous battle. This is called the Battle of Cannae. Okay? And this is what..."
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"Okay? So, you force your men to go to a river, and now the enemy is approaching them. They have no choice but to..."
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"1940 in World War II. Now, the difference, of course, is that by the time you hit the 1940s, you have machine guns. You..."
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"is best place to find out more i suppose so i mean uh um i i think asimov if i have to be frank..."
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"enough nothing you under the Sun indeed but as I said um where I think people can sometimes go wrong is if they make..."
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"Right. So I'm trying to start a new global intellectual academic movement, which is trying to reimagine history for the 21st century. I believe..."
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"Yeah, sure. So if you read history books, you will see there are many divergent views out there. There's like 10,000 ways of understanding..."
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"Oh, yeah. Great question. Sorry. So I've studied a lot of history and I felt that there was a common flaw to history being..."
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"Canada, Mexico, quite possibly, very quickly, the European Union, and the United States is already at economic war with Russia and China, okay? So..."
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"Okay? It's a much more complicated model than these two models. But I think it is much more useful in helping us predict the..."
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"And for me, this is frustrating because if the history is any good, if the history is accurate, then it should help us predict..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Jiang frames the Tianjin summit as proof that the real U.S.-China fight is no longer just about ideology.
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Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable method, then uses it to argue that Soleimani's killing made a U.S.-Iran war structurally inevitable, that eschatology is not prophecy but a strategic plan, that Odessa is...
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Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable historical method, then uses the interview to argue that Soleimani's assassination made a later U.S.-Iran war structurally legible, that Iran wins by luring America into ground commitment,...
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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