How Do America’s Enemies Think About the Iran War?
www.nationalreview.com
From left: Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin(Tingshu Wang, Kylie Cooper, Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Reuters)
The conflict’s ambiguous end is likely to encourage miscalculations.
The president clearly hopes that his memorandum of understanding with the Islamic Republic will put the Iran war in the rearview mirror. It might, although it is by no means a given that Tehran, emboldened by America’s retreat, will refrain from testing Donald Trump’s commitment to pusillanimity.
For now, however, the conflict has cooled to the point that there is space to thoroughly evaluate the war, the "cease-fire," the peace (such as it is), and how it all reflects on America’s tactical capabilities and strategic thinking. The United States won’t be the only nation conducting after-action assessments. America’s adversaries abroad will ...
Continue reading this article with an NRPLUS subscription.
All the access, half the price: join NRPLUS for $5/month
