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A whole-society approach directs material, trade, production, specialists, industry, research, bureaucracy, and military hierarchy toward gunpowder warfare.
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Military Hierarchy
A whole-society approach directs material, trade, production, specialists, industry, research, bureaucracy, and military hierarchy toward gunpowder warfare.
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Jiang says America expanded special forces after 2003 even though such forces are partly outside ordinary military supervision and therefore create control problems.
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"So now, what happened is that the king would ask for conscripts from all lands to create a centralized army, okay? So why you..."
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"...also need a bureaucracy to coordinate. And you also need a military hierarchy. Why? Because these soldiers need to be trained on how to..."
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"expression this was Unfortunately, the Americans don't know this, okay? Right? The Americans are like, well, all this does is prove our theory to..."
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"Now, traditionally, militaries have been very strict hierarchies, and there are good reasons for this, okay? You have to enforce order and discipline, right?..."
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"They're independent sometimes of your military. They have a lot of space to maneuver and to be independent. Now, why are special forces a..."
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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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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