Why Presidents Keep Losing Wars

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 20, 2017

Harlan Ullman, principal author of "shock and awe", former senior adviser to Supreme Allied Commander Europe, senior adviser to The Atlantic Council and The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the author of Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts (Naval Institute Press, 2017), argues that presidential shortcomings as military leaders and strategists have resulted in one failure after another in the decades after World War II.

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