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Jiang answers that special forces expanded both because more people wanted to enter them and because post-Soviet America needed shadow wars against rogue regimes.
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Post Cold WAR
Jiang answers that special forces expanded both because more people wanted to enter them and because post-Soviet America needed shadow wars against rogue regimes.
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"So shotgun all is really a theory of empire as opposed to a theory of war, okay? So does it make sense to you..."
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"And so a lot of the resources were shifted into special forces and that allowed more people to enter special forces, okay? Does that..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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