Warlordism 101 maps the moment when the state becomes a shell and power escapes its circuitry. Yan Xishan, Ungern, Obregón and Li Mi appear as engines converting military, political, social and symbolic capitals. The warlord is not a relic, but an acceleration system: faster than law, institutions, and ideology. A story of collapsing sovereignty, armed cliques, and violence learning to reproduce itself. Read it before the next Leviathan dies.