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Jiang's 'death' or strategic depth: the empire's ability to lose battles and continue fighting because it has enough space, people, and reserves.
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strategic depth
Jiang's 'death' or strategic depth: the empire's ability to lose battles and continue fighting because it has enough space, people, and reserves.
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Russia cannot allow Iran to fall because Jiang says a successful attack on Iran would lead to Russia being targeted next.
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An empire has mass, organization, and strategic depth; a borderland lacks those but has compensating advantages that make interaction explosive.
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Strategic depth lets empires survive defeat: Persia, China, and Rome can lose many battles because their mass and territory let them keep fighting.
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"That's a good question. Okay? So I don't want to spend too much time on this question because we will explore this question as..."
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"An empire and a borderland culture, they are almost complete opposites of each other. Their advantages mirror their disadvantages. They compensate for each other's..."
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"And what will happen for this inaction is the energy of the empire will start to transfer to the borderlands. And the borderlands itself..."
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"the Persians at the battle of Isis, but Darius was able to go deeper into his empire and assemble another large army for the..."
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"But because of the idea of death, Rome did not have to surrender. And Rome only won one battle against Hannibal in its history,..."
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"...The problem, though, is the American military does not have the depth, the strategic depth, the resources, the supply lines, in order to sustain..."
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