Robert Pape
speaker
2,835 appearances
10 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Robert Pape’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I cannot do that.
What I can then tell you is you need a dedicated backup plan and you need to organize an entire team because when this does go negative, as I'm telling you, and I'm telling you it's 90% likely to go negative.
And let's say I'm wrong, sir.
You're right.
I'm a professor.
You're the president of the United States.
You've won reelection.
I have not.
Do this, though.
At a minimum, have a backup plan so that when this goes completely south, you actually have a plan here.
And that is what I've done with the Air Force.
So when I've had my debates in the Air Force in the 1990s, when I went toe-to-toe with the leaders of the leadership decapitation school,
With the chief of staff of the Air Force, we had some of these classified debates over Easter with generals having to give up Easter with their families.
And believe me, the idea that generals want to give up Easter with their families to listen to some 32-year-old professor, this is not going down well.
But nonetheless, my real bottom line argument was,
You may be right.
You're going to do a bombing campaign that will do something no one has done in history in over 100 years.
And I can't tell you 100% for sure it will fail.
But what I can tell you is the number one thing you should do is cover your risk.
And what that means is not putting on the side and say, I'll get to that if it fails.
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