Military planners have learned the wrong lessons from the Vietnam War, focusing on war’s “winnability” rather than questioning whether to engage in it all, notes Alastair Crooke.
Tag: Iraq
A National Defense Strategy of Sowing Global Chaos
Giving War Too Many Chances
Undercounting the Civilian Dead
America’s Renegade Warfare
How US Blunders Strengthened Iran
US Tries to Stir Up Trouble for Iran
Iraqi Kurds Suffer Major Setback
The Thwarted Dreams of Kurdistan
Almost a century ago, European powers promised the Kurds a state but soon reneged on the deal, leaving Kurdish nationalists to fume for generations and leading to Iraq’s recent military capture of Kirkuk, reports Lawrence Davidson.