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https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1761185492991685105framework, this consideration actually applies to both revolutionaries overthrowing a regime, and to the incumbent government regime, that is, developing an accurate intelligence picture of who are friends and who are enemies is of utmost importance to both revolutionaries and
https://twitter.com/jordanschnyc/status/16693744637361520642/ complicated and nuanced. South Vietnamese generals, like Nationalist Chinese generals in Civil War, were spread broadly on a spectrum of competency, from grossly incompetent to highly competent. Battle of Xuan Loc, last major battle in South Vietnam before its final collapse
https://twitter.com/nicholadrummond/status/16685213947856240672/ their technical competence. Many people have fallen into the trap of attributing to a historical figure a favorable judgment on basis of their technical competence, despite the deeply problematic nature of their moral value. Many people have also fallen into the trap of wholly
https://twitter.com/simonbchen/status/15162569884091842562/ were captured by Nationalists in Civil War, ended up defecting to Nationalists (similarly, >90% of Nationalist intelligence operatives who were captured by communists, ended up defecting to communists). Thus, communist intelligence was aware that capture of their operatives
https://twitter.com/simonbchen/status/15356858764155330582/ gave her audience reassuring comfort and won for her pervasive liking from her Party colleagues and comrades (unlike Jiang Qing, wife of chairman Mao Zedong), laid a steely and ruthless personality who was uncompromisingly committed to communist revolution, and was involved in
https://twitter.com/simonbchen/status/15770670738425774092/ of Cultural Revolution was a matter of appearance and consequence, and not of fundamental motivation. To call Cultural Revolution a fundamentally ideological phenomenon, as many Western and Asian observers believe, is to confuse cause and effect, motivation and consequence.
https://twitter.com/simonbchen/status/15182962435076341772/ shrewdness or political ability. That opinion, from objective perspective of historical analysis, is true, but it’s not clear if his wife had the self-awareness to understand what he was trying to tell her. Mao Zedong noted that Jiang Qing had the political ambition of Wu
https://twitter.com/simonbchen/status/15106216608307896362/ Zedong, who launched Cultural Revolution to incite rebellious mobs to depose official institutional Party state bureaucrats and cadres including Liu Shaoqi, was central to story of Liu Shaoqi's dramatic fall in Cultural Revolution, but that story has already been told ad
https://twitter.com/simonbchen/status/13516259132014223362/ costly armed conflicts in 19th century world history. However, as a Han Chinese official working for a Manchu imperial court, he had to tread carefully and consciously restrain his own power, lest his Manchu imperial overlords become paranoid about their own security and purge