Professor Robert Pape
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Watch live on Fox Thursday, March 26th at 8, 7 central.
Thank you for having me.
bombing campaign going back all the way to World War II, and you've talked about- World War I. World War I. So my book, Bombing to Win, goes back to World War I. I've spent years teaching for the U.S.
Air Force, conventional targeting strategy in particular.
I have spent 20 years modeling the bombing of Iran.
So this is something I know quite a bit about.
I also study economic sanctions, terrorism.
So all of that is why I built the escalation trap, because those frameworks I've been using for so long for chiefs of staff of the Air Force, for
white houses and so forth, I thought really time to bring them to everybody.
Yeah, this is confirmation of what I've been saying.
So when states try to use air power alone to topple regimes, it has never, and I'm choosing my words carefully, never worked in over 100 years.
And we've tried many, many times.
I'm glad to go through the cases.
But what you get is often this lash back effect that you're not prepared for because you're overconfident.
You think you're going to win quick and decisively.
So you don't prepare for the worst cases.
And now the worst cases are coming and so we're always behind.
Now what Iran is specifically doing in this lashing back is a horizontal escalation concept.
It's actually a concept called parallel attack that we developed in the 1990s.
in the Air Force to use with precision targeting.
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