Glossary
One of Jiang's three war-outcome tests: whether an actor still has the will to continue fighting.
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will to fight
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Canto 20. Against a better will, the will fights weak, therefore to please him, though against my pleasure, I drew my unquenched sponge out..."
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Glossary
The morale and legitimacy reserve that makes a population or military willing to sacrifice for a war.
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Nobility supplies the will to fight, national unity, and culture; destroying nobility risks destroying the society's tradition and historical identity.
diagnosis
Jiang says the Russians' will to fight turned the war, and that losing 26 million people made the nation refuse to surrender.
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Jiang offers three questions for assessing who will win a war: whether the actor has clear military objectives, adapts to the battlefield, and retains the will to fight.
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He argues that despite killing large numbers of Vietnamese, the United States did not destroy the enemy's will to fight and instead made more people willing to fight Americans.
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Jiang says the missing consequence for a bad war appears as collapsing morale among soldiers and the public, not necessarily immediate international punishment.
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"...consequence is the morale of your population which affects your will to fight. Right? So if people believe that it is a good cause..."
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"is that Gerald Ford is now out of commission for the next two years because the damage was so extensive. And the theory is..."
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"...cannot solve. Okay? The first is a problem of the will to fight. The second is unity. And the third is culture. Okay? So..."
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"...they were able to triumph over Carthage. Okay? So the will to fight. The nobility gives a society the will to fight. Second, of..."
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"Okay? So, and what turned the war was the will to fight. The Russians lost 26 million people in the war. That's a lot..."
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"...the battlefield will win, okay? The third thing is, the will to fight. So, if you want to look at a war, who is..."
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"...course of the war, it was not destroying the enemy's will to fight. In fact, it was making them angrier. And therefore, more people..."
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"Canto 20. Against a better will, the will fights weak, therefore to please him, though against my pleasure, I drew my unquenched sponge out..."
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"...At some point, China and Japan will go kinetic, meaning they will fight over shipping lanes in the South China Sea."
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"...the American system, all right? Now we can understand how America will fight this war in Iran and how it will proceed to fight..."
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