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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: What Political Science Can Teach Us About the Syria Strikes
Description: Micah Zenko has researched whether or not limited airstrikes -- like the kind Donald Trump ordered on Syria last week -- actually achieve their stated political and military objectives. Â Â His book Between Threats and War: US Discrete Military Operations in the Post Cold-War World examined some 36 airstrikes and finds that they very rarely do what they are intended to do. We discuss why that is--and what implications his findings have for further US involvement in Syria. Â We do a little name dropping in this episode, including Robert Pape who wrote a definitive book on airpower called Bombing to Win. Â Bob was...