war of attrition

Jiang's term for the long conflict Putin supposedly wants in Europe so that sustained sacrifice, drafts, and economic pain intensify political backlash at home.

Russia's predicted method for challenging the U.S. Navy by raising costs rather than winning direct naval supremacy.

A strategy of forcing repeated conflict to degrade an opponent's capacity over time rather than defeating it directly.

Waiting out an enemy because the enemy has fewer resources.

Jiang argues that Putin's Europe strategy is to drag Germany into a long war so that conscription, sacrifice, and time generate enough domestic tension for anti-war, anti-immigration right-wing parties such as the AfD to take power.

Jiang's darker model is that the first strike is not meant to end the war but to draw America into a long war of attrition with Iran by manufacturing public support.

Jiang predicts the Iran war will become a years-long war of attrition, with neither side conceding even when a ceasefire would be materially rational.

Jiang says the U.S. and Iran are fighting different wars: America is trying to degrade military capacity while Iran is trying to strangle the world economy through GCC pressure and Hormuz disruption.

Jiang distinguishes a war of attrition, which tries to turn people against their government, from a war of destruction, which simply destroys the country regardless of political alignment.

Jiang says he still stands by the view that Iran holds more advantages than the United States because the conflict is now a war of attrition.

Jiang says American decision-makers still believe prolonged war and sanctions can eventually break the Russian economy despite current evidence of Russian economic resurgence.

Jiang predicts Russia will continue its slow advance while Europeans keep reestablishing front lines because they falsely believe the war is still winnable.