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Wars the public does not really see, used to topple regimes that do not listen to America.
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Shadow wars
Wars the public does not really see, used to topple regimes that do not listen to America.
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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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"...axis of evil. So America started to shift its doctrine. To shadow wars, okay? Wars that you don't really see, but which would be..."
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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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