Give Lethality (Not War) a Chance
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By Scott J. Harr
April 09, 2020
Why the time is now to leverage the U.S. Military's most critical competitive advantage over Iran.
Since 2016, the United States has prosecuted a campaign of “Maximum Pressure†against Iran. Using mostly economic levers, the campaign seeks to compel Iran to the negotiating table regarding its nuclear weapons program and curb its support to regional terrorist groups that threaten U.S. sovereignty and regional allies (lives and territory) and jeopardize American and global commerce (disrupting critical petrochemical shipping lanes). In seeking to leverage all elements of national power, the "Maximum Pressure" campaign converges with the U.S. military's shift to a strategy focusing on Great Power Competition (GPC).
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