Dominic Tierney, an associate professor of political science at Swarthmore, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the author of The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts (Little, Brown and Company, 2015), offers a handbook on how better to "win" the sorts of un-winnable guerilla conflicts that the U.S. has faced since World War II.

.@swarthmore prof. Dominic Tierney is in the studio today: pic.twitter.com/jHda0rSk23

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Dominic Tierney on un-winnable wars: "The U.S. has more power, but the opponent has more willpower."

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There's no question America's military industrial complex shapes interventionism, says @swarthmore prof. Dominic Tierney.

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