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He argues that the invasion force cannot be resupplied because aircraft and helicopters would be vulnerable in mountain terrain, leaving the troops trapped.
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Mountain Warfare
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Jiang says Iran's mountainous terrain breaks the American shock-and-awe model because mountains cannot be bombed into submission the way desert armies can be shattered under air superiority.
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"So these are the three things that we have to keep in mind when we think about, um, Iran. Okay. The first thing is,..."
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"Okay. That's number two. Number three is the Iranian people know exactly what could happen if the Americans invade. The entire point is to..."
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"Exactly. They cannot be resupplied. Okay? They have no supply lines. For them to be resupplied, airplanes have to drop ammunition, food into the..."
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"You can't resupply them. And they've been encircled by Iranian forces. All right? Does that make sense? Okay? Okay. Now, the logic of having..."
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"...says, you can't move tanks through mountains. They're not designed for mountain warfare. What are you going to do? Okay? So they can't mass..."
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
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