The Escalation Trap | Prof. Robert Pape

“We don’t have a strategy to win.”

Air power expert, Professor Robert Pape (University of Chicago), says air power campaigns don’t effect regime change.

He warns of the “smart bomb illusion” where precision targeting gives the illusion of escalation control. We are distracted by the success of precision air strikes, but they cause escalation and we don’t see the long war coming.

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