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Jiang defines the Dead River Strategy as destroying or blocking the line of retreat so a scattered force must either drown or unify and fight as one.
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Military Stratagem
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "battle your enemy it has overpowered you now you're forced to retreat and your troops are running they're divided the morale is low so..."
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"battle your enemy it has overpowered you now you're forced to retreat and your troops are running they're divided the morale is low so..."
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"does work another tactic is to burn your ships and when your troops see the ships being burned they know that okay there's no..."
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"...that's the first analogy second analogy is you look at chinese military stratagems throughout the millennia um it's a very common tactic is the..."
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"...go and destroy the enemy okay this is the most popular military stratagem in ancient Chinese history and guess what it's the same as..."
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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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