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Jiang's model of special forces as hard-to-control units whose skills and autonomy can turn into civil-war capacity.
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Special forces as autonomous violence
Jiang's model of special forces as hard-to-control units whose skills and autonomy can turn into civil-war capacity.
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"...run the drug cartels in Mexico and who commit the most violence in the world are former members of their special forces. That's why..."
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"government, okay? And guess what? Delta Force, which is the most elite special force unit in America, has exactly 1,000 members. So, you have..."
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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