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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
A correct war cost pyramid puts infantry at the bottom because soldiers are cheapest, then armor/artillery, naval power, and air power as more expensive layers.
Philip's controversial reform was to turn the army into a meritocracy by making noble cavalry and common infantry equal in promotion according to battlefield performance.
He defines hoplites as shield-and-spear infantry and phalanx as a moving wall formed by armored men standing together.
"And the most simple cost pyramid, okay, is, is this. Infantry, soldiers, okay? Alright? They're at the bottom. Why? Because they're the cheapest. What's..."
"...made the cavalry, which was full of nobility, equal to the infantry, which was made of commoners, peasants. So in this new system, as..."
"...was hilly. So you didn't really use cavalry. It was mainly infantry fighting against each other. What the Greeks did over hundreds of years,..."
"...be able to keep their word just so i saw the infantry where they mar when they marched out under safe conduct from caprona..."
"...imported wares but never yet have i seen horsemen or seen infantry or ship that sails by signal of land or star moved to..."
"...occupied with their army in Ukraine. And this is where their infantry, their artillery is based. At the same time, Russia has something called..."
"...war actually the ground troops are the bread and butter the infantry of the bread and butter um of your military so the Americans..."
"...this drone, these drone reconnaissance flying around. You've got very motivated infantry. You've got artillery warfare. You've controlled the terrain. So, if, you know,..."
"...basically perfected this attrition Warfare which involves um drone reconnaissance um infantry uh uh probing attacks and artillery Warfare um Russia has um innovated..."
"...navy, the Romans controlled the world through its roads and its infantry. America controls the world through air power. But nowadays, you don't need..."
"...the Roman territory, the consuls advanced against them. Valerius, with the infantry and phalanx formation, Brutus recon..."
"...attacked by drones. So now it's like two or three reconnaissance infantry on motorcycles. And that's destroying Ukrainian defenses because the front lines are..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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.
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
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...
Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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