How Will the Iran War End?

Foreign Affairs

How Will the Iran War End?

The U.S. is unlikely to win on maximalist terms.

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“Tell me how this ends,” a young General David Petraeus asked early in the Iraq War, after Saddam Hussein’s army had largely been defeated. The United States is extraordinarily good at the first half of wars and far less capable in the second.