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Strategy and Exit Strategies: Essential or Misleading?

October 31, 2019
Strategy and Exit Strategies: Essential or Misleading?
Strategy and Exit Strategies: Essential or Misleading?

Strategy and Exit Strategies: Essential or Misleading?

October 31, 2019
Claude Berube, Melanie Marlowe, and Christopher Preble

Melanie, Chris, and guest host Claude Berube discuss the promise and pitfalls of exit strategies. When policymakers plan to embark on foreign wars, should they also prepare a plan for extricating the nation from these wars when they are completed? Is an exit strategy a vital component of strategy? Or do exit strategies create unreasonable expectations of easy victory? Can an exit strategy focus attention on a desired end state, and prevent mission creep? Or are prudent adjustments only possible when policymakers are not shackled to pre-war objectives? Chris congratulates New England Patriots’ coach Bill Bellichick on victory number 300, Melanie blasts Sean Duffy for questioning a decorated U.S. Army officer’s patriotism, and Claude delivers a Net Assessment first — a heartfelt attadog for his beloved four-legged companion, Reagan.

 

 

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