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In Jiang's war model, organization means implementing strategy; simpler strategies are easier to organize and execute.
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The final student question asks whether open imagination can survive the coercive organizing logic of large-scale society.
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Jiang's model says winning a war requires attention to three major issues: economics, organization, and logistics.
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Jiang defines organization as the implementation of strategy and says simpler strategy is easier to implement.
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Jiang argues that the Pentagon's optics-and-narrative habits may work against Somalis and Iraqis but are a major problem against Iran, where the United States would need total war focused on economics, organization, and logistics.
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Jiang identifies organization, logistics, and economics as the three things that win wars.
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An empire has three apparent advantages: mass, organization, and death, where death means enough resources and people to absorb repeated military losses.
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Successful revolution requires four elements: charismatic or focused leadership, broad mass appeal, organizational discipline, and incompetent opposition.
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Jiang defines the strongest organization through hierarchy, purpose, selflessness, love, money, secrecy, discipline, energy, and negative emotions generated by sin.
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"review what we've learned any questions about about today before we we end any questions guys ask one question then we'll end okay yes..."
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"...society reaches a certain amount of people and a level of organization then you need to force people into imagining that your system works..."
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"...economics. Okay? Economics. Second thing you want to look at is organization. The third thing you want to look at is logistics. All right?..."
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"...so you can extract uranium from Iranians, that's not a good organization. Okay? This thing is going to blow up in your face. The..."
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"...Iranians you need total war. You need to focus on economics organization and logistics. Stop doing this crap of optics okay and narrative. Unfortunately..."
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"they should be thinking about are organization logistics and economics. Because these are the three things that win wars. Alright. Okay. Any questions guys?"
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"...its wars. Okay? So it's mass. Second is the idea of organization."
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"Organization just means a hierarchy of bureaucracy and elite that allows you to organize your resources and your people in order to generate wealth,..."
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"...um so I think we're moving towards a time when um organization Human Organization it's much more vibrant much more diverse um the city..."
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"Why Disraeli is writing about this, we will discuss next class. But it's all part of a secret plan. But first, let's look at..."
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"Mao Zedong was a charismatic leader with a very strong organization. And Chiang Kai -shek, even though he had a huge army, even though..."
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"Okay. I mean, you can make the argument that, look, the people in power are those who control the money. And, you know, I..."
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