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The lecture frames Salamis as the point where the Persian army had already won the war but the Persian navy lost it by fighting in a narrow strait against heavier Greek ships.
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The lecture frames Salamis as the point where the Persian army had already won the war but the Persian navy lost it by fighting in a narrow strait against heavier Greek ships.
Jiang defines traditional military doctrine as massing forces, avoiding encirclement, and protecting supply lines, and says this doctrine requires public consent because wars consume soldiers, money, and political support.
Jiang argues that the proper Ukrainian strategy against Russia in 2022 would have been to retreat, overextend Russian supply lines, encircle Russian forces, and disrupt their supply.
"...problem is, when, now that the Persian navy has been destroyed, supply lines are in trouble. Okay? Do you understand? Because Greek is, Greece..."
"...forces. B is avoid encirclement, right? And the third is protect supply lines. Now, the important idea is that when you fight a war..."
"...guys know? Let's go back to mass forces, avoid encirclement, protect supply lines."
"...you can fight this war. Excuse me? How do you disrupt supply lines? There's only one way you can fight this war and win...."
"...war capacity, right? The food, the soldiers, right? Kill civilians. Destroy supply lines. Overstretch your enemy. Divide and conquer. Strike fear in your enemy...."
"...trap the Americans in Iran, encircle them, and cut off their supply lines, and force a negotiated surrender. That's the optimal strategy of the..."
"...does not have the depth, the strategic depth, the resources, the supply lines, in order to sustain this attack."
"...easy for the underground militias, these cell groups, to strike at supply lines for the Americans. And it would become very quickly almost an..."
"...doctrine, you have three principles. Right? Mass forces, avoid encirclement, protect supply lines. Okay? These are three things you must absolutely obey if you..."
"Exactly. They cannot be resupplied. Okay? They have no supply lines. For them to be resupplied, airplanes have to drop ammunition, food into the..."
"...your army? Why not? But there's a bigger problem than the supply lines. What is it? What do you need to create bullets and..."
"...to defend yourself, all right? And the third idea is protect supply lines. Most of war is actually just logistics. How do you get..."
Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
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