Originally published at: Iran: It’s Hard to Know How Exit When You Don’t Know Why You’re There - TPM – Talking Points Memo
In discussions of modern wars Americans obsess about “exit strategies”. How do you avoid getting “bogged down”. How do you know when the mission is finished? How do you avoid “mission creep”? These are very much Great Power questions. They’re all questions you ask about what are fundamentally wars of choice. They’re framed as questions…
