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He defines the historical evolution of warfare as moving from killing soldiers, to destroying civilian production, to using civilian dissent against the state.
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Warfare
He defines the historical evolution of warfare as moving from killing soldiers, to destroying civilian production, to using civilian dissent against the state.
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He argues that the nation-state idea became so powerful that defeating it required destroying civilian populations, not merely killing soldiers.
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He classifies the war in Ukraine as essentially a 19th-century war or World War I-style war focused on killing soldiers.
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Jiang says Iran, unlike Ukraine, will be the first 21st-century war.
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He says the best weapon in 21st-century war is no longer planes or aircraft carriers but the targeted country's own population.
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Intermarried elites reach equilibrium above the states, turning warfare from innovation into population control and court politics into factional struggle over hierarchy.
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Jiang rejects ritualized warfare and The Art of War as rules for a controlled game; actual conquest requires total commitment, promotion of talent, happy soldiers, attacks on civilian centers and supply lines, and refusal to respect elite taboos.
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Bronze transforms warfare because it combines tin and copper into superior weapons, but tin scarcity forces civilizations to expand trade routes.
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"...century um and so i want to explain to you how warfare has evolved these past few hundred years so the simplest way to..."
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"of the 19th century how traditionally wars wars were fought for hundreds of hundreds of years within sort of centuries something happened which is..."
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"then others will use nuclear will use new glories on you okay so now Now, in the 21st century, our goal is to use..."
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"So in World War II, what they recognized is there's no point in killing soldiers on the battlefield because they'll just send in more..."
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"So as you can see, because of the rise of the nation state, we had to kill more and more people in order to..."
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"It made a lot of people more wealthy. Think of the tremendous wealth that China has generated in the past 30, 40 years because..."
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"Okay? And that's what's happening in Ukraine. What I will show you is that Iran will be the first 21st century war. Okay? So..."
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"weapon in this war are no longer my planes and my aircraft carriers my best weapon is the Iranian people themselves that's what a..."
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"...creates the idea of equilibrium and at this point in history warfare becomes organized warfare okay so remember before warfare was about innovation but..."
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"...now when you do that it's for population control okay so warfare becomes a mechanism of population control all right so even though these..."
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"That's why you were meritocracy. You only promoted the best and the brightest. Once you reach an equilibrium, you don't have to do that,..."
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"...So the way they manage this is for them to use warfare in order to maintain the status quo, to create equilibrium. Okay? And..."
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Bronze begins as a weapon, becomes status, hardens into currency, and then teaches the world the dangerous rhythm of capital: rapid growth, total interconnection, elite consolidation, and sudden collapse.
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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