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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
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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.
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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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"...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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"...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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"...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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"Right. So if you want to win this war what you do is you spend two years to stage two million troops around Iran...."
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"to adapt to the real world if they are to win this war now I understand that in ground invasion would be political suicide..."
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"logistics chains the manufacturing capacity uh in an inventory to launch a multi -war uh sorry a multi -year uh ground invasion of Iran..."
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"...also support as well so you have to think about the logistics network that you need to protect um and that's the issue that..."
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"...just volunteers they were doing tremendous damage to the american military logistics network and so the americans are good at shock and awe they're..."
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"So, Iraq was a desert, which makes it ideal for an air campaign. And this war was wrapped up in two weeks' time. There's..."
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"You said three weeks in your lecture, that they bragged that it was three weeks to— Yeah, two or three weeks."
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"...to decapitate the regime. But they don't really understand that. So logistics will be a huge problem. And if you just look at the..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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This lecture turns a current conflict into a strategic exercise: the war is too short to be explained as U.S.
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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