More Diplomacy, Less Military Action

Anthony Zinni, retired four-star general in the US Marine Corp, former commander in chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), author (with Tony Koltz), of Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win Or Lose Off The Battlefield (St. Martin's Griffin, 2014), offers his take on the challenges of U.S. foreign policy and repeats his argument that we over-use military action when foreign aid and diplomacy would serve our ends better.