President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iranian nuclear sites was clearly a tactical success. Turning that into a strategic victory means keeping up the pressure to force Iran to sign a verifiable deal that forever removes its ability to build an atomic bomb.
Victory is the only rational objective of all rationally launched wars. A nation that seeks victory intends to use military force to obtain a clear objective and then assembles and uses the means necessary to achieve it.
America’s “forever wars” of the past three decades arose because our leaders either did not ask the question “What would our victory look like?” or did not assemble and use the means necessary to achieve a clear victory.
Trump clearly does not want to start another
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