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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
One of Jiang's three war-outcome tests: whether an actor still has the will to continue fighting.
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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.
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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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"...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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"...will be automatically registered which means you're obliged to go and fight exactly next the world will move towards an ai civilian state so..."
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"...do i'll make sure every single week every single month we fight harder and harder and harder and harder to bring you the guests..."
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"...have the manufacturing capacity, does not have the risk tolerance to fight this war in Iran. Basically, America wants to fight this war as..."
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"...And so the first thing is that Iran can choose to fight a war of attrition."
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"...needs to pay for its own defense. NATO needs to go fight Russia and Ukraine. America will provide support, it'll provide weapons and financing,..."
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"...the world is to go make weapons for the Pentagon to fight these wars in the Middle East that can go on for forever...."
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"...around the world. So imagine a situation where in Europe, NATO fights Russia in Ukraine. In East Asia, China fights South Korea and Japan...."
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