empire's disadvantages (inequality, elite overproduction, hubris)

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Concepts that appear alongside empire's disadvantages (inequality, elite overproduction, hubris) across episodes.

• drinking your own kool-aid / getting high on your own supply
• logistics and manufacturing
• political will
• law of asymmetry
• iranian disadvantages (blindness/zealotry, isolation/resource scarcity, ethnic divisions)
• insurgency/bribing insurgents
• double tap
• political polarization
• zero-sum game (power)
• aerosupremacy
• decapitation strategy (command and control)
• rent-seeking
• us disadvantages (dependency, lack of debate, unreliable mercenaries)
• soft targeting
• underdog's advantages (energy, openness, cohesion)
• empire's advantages (mass, organization, death)
• casualty aversion
• us advantages (technology, propaganda, money)
• iranian advantages (faith, terrain, nationalism)