Iran's Mosaic Defense makes a negotiated ceasefire hard to implement because provincial military units would not automatically obey political leadership.
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Iran's Mosaic Defense makes a negotiated ceasefire hard to implement because provincial military units would not automatically obey political leadership.
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Jiang presents Spartan education as a trauma-bonding system that turns abused children into soldiers loyal to older male commanders.
Jiang uses Spartan education as evidence that ritualized brutality, hazing, mentorship, and sexual bonds can manufacture brotherhood and military synchronicity.
He uses the Sacred Band of Thebes and Macedonia as a chain of copied military-cohesion systems, culminating in soldiers who stand in place to die so others can escape.
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"will happen is that Israel will launch a false flag against the Americans, which will justify an American attack against Iran. All right. So..."
"That's a problem with the Mosaic Defense. Think of the Mosaic Defense as almost a dead man's switch, where if you kill the Ayatollah,..."
"So these Spartans need to be really cohesive as a society. They need to fight and die for each other. So their education system..."
"is the man first of course commits you know sexual abuse but again because the child is traumatized because the child has no bearings..."
"to give you some historical analogies to this okay how do you know that what I'm saying is correct well let's look at certain..."
"the Persian invasion and rather than run like most people the 300 soldiers make a final stand their leader is Leonidas and he tells..."
"one there's no education they're not learning anything all that's happening is the older boys are just beating the crap out of the younger..."
"other they learn how to bond with each other during the mentorship phase these young boys learn to think like in a hive mind..."
"call the system the sacred band um of 300 soldiers and they were again lovers okay but this is really important for you guys..."
"so ferocious that their enemies would run away okay then what happened is that macedonia would copy the theban system um who's the most..."
"and in 338 bce at the battle of uh zirconia macedonia fought against the commandment of thebes and athens and macedonia destroyed thebes and..."
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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