Tom Nichols
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because remember, Trump wishcasts.
I mean, I say this every time we talk about him.
He tries to manifest things into being.
He's like, yeah, yeah, I know it's a problem, but if we just do it, it will happen.
If you build it, they will come, kind of thinking.
And he launched the war, expected the regime to fall, and it didn't.
And when that didn't happen,
Everything went to hell.
They didn't know what to do next.
So he just said, General, have you got more operations?
Yeah, we can hit plenty.
Iran is a target-rich environment.
We can bomb stuff all day long.
But as I used to teach at the Naval War College years ago, operational successes without strategic direction don't get you toward victory.
That's not their job.
Their job is to plan operations.
The very senior military leaders are supposed to ask that question.
You know, we have these packages.
We have these target sets.