Tom Nichols

It depends on what you think you're there to do.

If you're going after the nuclear sites, then you're going to hit those sites and any associated infrastructure you can find.

And you're going to try and do that with as few casualties as possible.

If, on the other hand, you've decided that you're going to go big and that you want to take down the regime, then you're going to do a whole bunch of different things.

You're going to strike communications nodes.

You're going to strike all...

All things that give the government control and power and the ability to command.

So you're going to hit command posts.

You're going to communications.

You're going to try and hit the leadership.

You're going to try and figure out where they are and, you know, hit their bunkers.

I mean, there is a lot.

It's a very different profile for that kind of operation.

And you're going to price in that you may lose some of your people there.

but that you're also going to kill a fair number of Iranians in that kind of operation as well.

You know, I think the best model for how Donald Trump understands the world is a great book.

There are two great books of international affairs.

One is The Peloponnesian War, and the other is The Godfather.

The Godfather explains everything you need to know about international affairs in the modern era.

That the world is basically a violent and unruly place, which is true, and that it's ruled by families.