Rational Security: The “Mission Admonished” Edition
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Lessons Learned From the Iraq War
I was briefly a neoconservative, not out of any particular conviction, but I think just out of my general. That does not surprise me at all. And again, we have not yet. The catastrophe of the Iraq war should update our priors on some sort of key geopolitical facts. Like it's much easier to break things than build things. You cannot just tell countries and people how to structure their societies and politics. All of this is much, much harder than it might seem. Whatever all the standard lessons are, right? But in terms of like, what is the lesson for your future decision procedures? I don't know because it can't be, you know, never trust the
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