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Jiang’s triad for empire: population scale, bureaucracy, and willingness to spend lives repeatedly.
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mass, organization, and death
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"Alright, the empire has three major advantages. Mass, organization, and death. And what this means is that empire just has a lot of people...."
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"...of 92 million people, it still suffers from issues of mass organization and death. And so if it's able to transform itself into an..."
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"Okay. So this is the idea of empire right? Just mass organization and death. We are infinite in our resources. We are infinite in..."
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"...they think you're weak, okay? The empire has three advantages, mass, organization, and death. Mass just means a lot of people. Organization means a..."
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"...empire, an empire usually has three major advantages. They are mass, organization, and death. Okay? Some historians use the word strategic death. Okay? All..."
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