Robert Pape

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2,835 appearances 10 recordings 4 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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But look at the Supreme Leader's statement just a few minutes before we came on the show today.

Look at what's happening around the world in the last 36 hours, 72 hours.

This is a strategic disaster.

This is not.

These tactical successes...

are not leading to strategic success, similar with the bombing.

The bombing was tactically successful.

In fact, I taught for the US Air Force.

I have nothing but enamored with our,

are military.

They are doing a fantastic job with what they're being ordered to do.

They're doing it above and beyond what you might know, shirking here and so forth.

And that's true with the blockade as well.

So tactically, you're seeing success.

But what we're doing is it's too easy to confuse tactical success with strategic success.

And this is one of the big points I make on the escalation trap.

But since I taught for the Air Force in the 1990s,

This is one of the things I discovered by teaching colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors, who were the best of the best.

I think of them as like the top guns.

that was too easy for them to confuse tactical success with strategic because for their last 12, 15 years, they were tactical people.

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