This is a somewhat rambling podcast that deals with Victory in war and what it really is. I submit that victory is not achieving stability as some recent pundits have asserted but defeating your enemy. I explain why I mean defeat in the Clausewitzean terms of “compelling your enemy to do your will“. I also examine the idea that war tends to extremes but never reaches those extremes because victory is achieved before the logical extreme is reached.
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