Glossary
The ability to imagine a whole battlefield across nations, anticipate how battle will progress, and adjust with total battlefield awareness.
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strategic imagination
The ability to imagine a whole battlefield across nations, anticipate how battle will progress, and adjust with total battlefield awareness.
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Glossary
The Russian capacity Jiang attributes to leaders like Stalin and Putin: thinking differently, broadly, and strategically enough to invert expected outcomes.
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Jiang argues that Putin's apparent genius depends on a broader Russian strategic imagination shared by Russian leaders such as Stalin.
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diagnosis
Jiang says Stalin was a genius because he turned a losing war into a winning war.
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Jiang defines the first element of Russian strategic imagination as intuition: the ability to read the political winds or Zeitgeist.
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Jiang defines the second element as imagination: sensing the political winds and imagining how one's action would change them.
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prediction
Jiang says the same strategic imagination that allowed Stalin to win World War II is why Putin will be able to destroy the American empire.
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Jiang says Stalin's alleged strategy could not have been written in a memo because writing it down would prevent execution and confuse everyone.
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"The third thing is the strategic imagination. So a general is able to take all the relevant information that he or she has obtained..."
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"...you today is that for many reasons, Russian leaders have a strategic imagination. They just think differently. And more strategically than anyone else. Okay?..."
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"...How was Stalin able to do this? What makes the Russian imagination different from the Western imagination? Okay? So I would say three things...."
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"...he feels important to act. Okay? So it's intuition. Second is imagination. So Putin and Stalin both have a strategic imagination, which means like,..."
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"The ability to be multiple individuals at once. And that's how Stalin was able to win World War II, and this is why Putin..."
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"...And, the British system, basically, it's trying to remove intuition and imagination from the decision -making process, from the intellectual process, because intuition and..."
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"...sense? Okay? So, this is, these three things are the Russian strategic imagination. The ability to feel the political winds of the moment. The..."
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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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