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Retreating while burning fields and supplies so an invading army cannot feed itself.
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scorched earth
Retreating while burning fields and supplies so an invading army cannot feed itself.
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Jiang treats scorched earth as a repeated Russian pattern: it defeated Sweden, Napoleon in 1812, and Germany in World War II by sacrificing territory and supplies rather than winning directly in the field.
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"...disaster. Why? Because Peter the Great will use something called a scorched earth policy. Basically, he knows that he cannot, on the battlefield, defeat..."
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"And so, the Russians and the Ottomans will clash over the Kremlin. Okay? The Crimea. Okay? The Crimea. And this will lead to something..."
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"And most of the Russian nobility, a lot of them actually have German blood. And they actually spoke French at home. Okay? So, this..."
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"...good at fighting a war of attrition, right? Something called a scorched earth policy, which is how they defeated Charles II of Sweden as..."
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"...to defeat Hannibal, and it worked, is something we call a scorched earth policy. Scorched earth policy."
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The lecture starts with Putin and Ukraine, but it does not stay in policy.
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