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He presents war as an attempt to put a rival into check by attacking political systems rather than purely military systems.
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WAR Model
He presents war as an attempt to put a rival into check by attacking political systems rather than purely military systems.
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Jiang's model says winning a war requires attention to three major issues: economics, organization, and logistics.
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Jiang defines the economics of war as resource management: trying to win as cheaply and quickly as possible.
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Jiang defines organization as the implementation of strategy and says simpler strategy is easier to implement.
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Jiang defines logistics as supply: ensuring forces have the equipment and resources needed to fight effectively.
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Jiang predicts that America will ultimately lose the war because it is focused on optics and narrative while Iran is fighting a real war around economics, simple strategy, organization, and logistics.
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Jiang identifies organization, logistics, and economics as the three things that win wars.
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Jiang defines war as operating across narrative, political, economic, and military dimensions.
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"as a frame of reference okay so the king is the political system so the first idea to understand is that when you fight..."
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"grand strategy okay you just throw them away you don't really care okay does that make sense all right so now let's apply this..."
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"russians or the chinese or the iranians okay all right so the way you put america into check is by enhancing the polarization and..."
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"First thing you want to look at is economics. Okay? Economics. Second thing you want to look at is organization. The third thing you..."
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"if you are trying to build an air base in the middle of Iran so you can extract uranium from Iranians, that's not a..."
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"for proper organization and they are trying to maintain logistics. Okay? The Americans are just trying to win the war in the most Hollywood..."
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"they should be thinking about are organization logistics and economics. Because these are the three things that win wars. Alright. Okay. Any questions guys?"
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"So war is fought across four dimensions. All right? There is the narrative dimension, meaning global opinion, how history will perceive this war. There..."
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"So, that discussion, that political discussion determines the contours of this fight. Economic means that as this fight is still happening, nations are still..."
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"think about actual applications of AI it's it's very limited you also look at self -driving cars now there are cars that have self..."
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"for example remember what we remember my predictions the issue a lobby, Saudi Arabia and the American Empire, basically the need to protect the..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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