Iraqi fighters from the Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades), a group formed by Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, wave their weapons as they leave the holy city of Najaf

How to Win an Un-Winnable War

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 4, 2015

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.

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