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A war logic where operations are chosen for narrative spectacle and later media value rather than strategic payoff.
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optics war
A war logic where operations are chosen for narrative spectacle and later media value rather than strategic payoff.
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diagnosis
He says American special-operations culture privileges optics, narrative, book deals, and movie deals over sober military strategy.
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Jiang uses the Jessica Lynch story to argue that American military spectacle can fabricate danger to produce heroic rescue narratives.
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"thing is that during this rescue operation um they lost more planes i think a couple of blackhawk helicopters were shut down two c..."
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"deal can i get a movie deal can i go i'm serious man this is like literally how these guys think you've got this..."
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"got this culture in the american military and the people uh the special operate operators it's not about how to win this war it's..."
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"lot of injuries so the iraqis put her in a hospital a civilian hospital and then word got out that she was in the..."
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"know what honestly i could have they wanted to like bring an ambulance and send me back to the americans but the americans were..."
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"and there's gonna be disaster in this war it's an optics war and that was the justification for it in the beginning they wanted..."
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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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