386 | Michael R. Gordon: The U.S. Isn't Ready for Great Power Conflict - And the Iraq War(s) That Led It There
The Realignment
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The Importance of Military Victory in the Middle East
It's good to start wars that have or be involved in wars that have realistic political objectives. Remaking the Middle East and turning it into a democracy is an unrealistic political objective. Take a look at what happened in the Balkans, which is reasonably successful and stopping Serbian aggression in Kosovo. We didn't even use a land force to in the military operation we did for peacekeeping purposes. So, you know, some of these wars which are important to succeed at have more limited objectives. In the case of China and Russia our objective are overwhelming objective is not to fight China and Russia. It's not. That's the goal. The goal is to build up sufficient deterrent capacity. And maintaining peace
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