To win a war, you must break your enemy’s capacity to fight or his will to fight. And you must tell your people a story they believe.
In this episode, Robert Nicholson uses the ongoing war with Iran to examine how Americans think about victory—and why that often leads to confusion and a sense of failure.
Drawing on examples from World War II to Iraq, and contrasting the American approach with Israel’s more limited model of war, he argues that modern conflicts are decided not just on the battlefield, but in the minds of those watching them.
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