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He says the military posture is that America is winning, does not need real negotiation, and will negotiate with bombs.
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Military Strategy
The river-at-the-back analogy models taboo as a forced no-exit condition: once the worst modern taboo is crossed, the group either escalates together or is destroyed.
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The river-at-the-back analogy models taboo as a forced no-exit condition: once the worst modern taboo is crossed, the group either escalates together or is destroyed.
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Austerlitz made Napoleon legendary, but the plan depended on Davout arriving quickly enough to hold the right flank.
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Jiang defines strategic hubris as blindness to one's own limits, opponents' strategy, and the broader geopolitical picture.
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"Never in history has a modern military... Iran had a modern military, a modern navy, a modern air force, modern air defenses, leadership, massive..."
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"And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as it's hard, as it's necessary. To ensure the interests of the United..."
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"So this is Secretary of War Peter Heksev. And he represents the Pentagon, the military. And his attitude is, we're winning this war. We..."
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"...okay the analogy is this in Chinese history the most popular military strategy M is to fight with a river behind your back you..."
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"or you can fight to the death and most soldiers will choose to fight to the death and so at this point the soldiers..."
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"But not only that, but B requires the capacity to ignore social values and focus on what is good by itself. Okay? That's why..."
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"So Napoleon needs to act first and knock out both Russia and Austria before the Prussians come in. Because Prussia is considered at this..."
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"Okay? But, and so what the coalition forces are going to do is this. They see the right flank of Napoleon. It's weak. So..."
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"The right flank needs to hold against the coalition attack. Otherwise, the coalition will just sweep in and outflank Napoleon. Napoleon has this plan..."
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"...why they're overextended. extended is hubris and what hubris is in military strategy is the idea of blindness so you are blind to the..."
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"...the idea of stock and all is that it is a military strategy that believes that if you cut off the head of the..."
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"...if you insist on using technology and drones as your main military strategy, you will lose this war."
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The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
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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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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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