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In Jiang's war model, logistics means supply: maintaining the equipment and resources forces need to fight effectively.
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logistics
In Jiang's war model, logistics means supply: maintaining the equipment and resources forces need to fight effectively.
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Key Notes
Glossary
The food and supply problem Jiang says defeated Hannibal despite tactical genius.
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Jiang's model says winning a war requires attention to three major issues: economics, organization, and logistics.
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Jiang defines logistics as supply: ensuring forces have the equipment and resources needed to fight effectively.
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Jiang argues that the Pentagon's optics-and-narrative habits may work against Somalis and Iraqis but are a major problem against Iran, where the United States would need total war focused on economics, organization, and logistics.
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Jiang identifies organization, logistics, and economics as the three things that win wars.
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The counterfactual model says nonintervention would have let Russia overextend, lose logistics and public support, and give Ukraine a better chance of winning through guerrilla and probing attacks.
definition
Jiang defines the great general as bold, disciplined, fair, and concerned with power, organization, logistics, and the movement and feeding of armies.
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Hannibal ultimately loses, in Jiang's answer, because he has no reliable organizational and logistical support or food supply, and Rome learns to avoid battle while cutting off supplies.
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Troy is framed as the central logistics hub and toll gate of the Bronze Age world: whoever controlled it could profit because everyone had to pass through it.
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"...going to blow up in your face. The third issue is logistics, which is just supply. Okay? Supply. Making sure that your forces have..."
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"...is organization. The third thing you want to look at is logistics. All right? So, what do I mean by this? Well, the first..."
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"...need total war. You need to focus on economics organization and logistics. Stop doing this crap of optics okay and narrative. Unfortunately it's it..."
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"they should be thinking about are organization logistics and economics. Because these are the three things that win wars. Alright. Okay. Any questions guys?"
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"So today. I want to focus on the war in Ukraine. I want to talk about Putin specifically. From a Game Theory perspective, this..."
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"...And what Russians are not very good at is organization and logistics and planning. And so. What the Ukrainians are able to do is..."
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"And popular opinion turns against Putin. And now it's very hard for Putin to sustain this war. There's no strategy moving forward. The Russian..."
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"...disciplined, and he's fair. He's also concerned about power. Organization and logistics. How do you move an army from place to place? How do..."
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"Right? But he had no organizational and logistic support. He had no food supply. Because he was basically doing this on his own initiative...."
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"...becomes the center of the world. Because this place becomes the logistics hub of the world, right? To get to anywhere, you have to..."
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"We will discuss the Iliad next class. But I want you to understand this place is called Troy. And because this place is so..."
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"and his people, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, they want this war. And they go..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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