An End Game for America’s Iran Strategy
Take a page from the cold-war playbook.
April 7, 2020
Take a page from the cold-war playbook.
While praising the Trump administration’s maximum-pressure campaign against Tehran, which consists primarily of economic measures, Michael Makovsky sees the need for a more comprehensive approach. The U.S. goal, Makovsky argues, should be the Islamic Republic’s collapse. Looking to America’s conduct of the cold war as an example, he sets out how this can be achieved without resorting to military confrontation:
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