Vice President of Research for Security & Defense at Chicago Council on Global Affairs • Contributing Editor at Lawfare • Ex Pentagon & State Department • Author of No Conquest, No Defeat (Oxford University Press) & co-author of Triple Axis (Bloomsbury)
Ariane Tabatabai
3/ If we take the admin’s own (shifting) objectives for these operations, it’s hard to see this episode—the war and the deal that ended it—as anything but a colossal failure.
But there is no quick solution here. And the admin lacks the attention span and is already onto its next target, Cuba.
