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The claim that shock and awe succeeds in desert contexts but faces a different problem in mountainous Iran.
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The claim that shock and awe succeeds in desert contexts but faces a different problem in mountainous Iran.
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"And what would happen in other words? Okay, so the thing about America for the past 20 years, it's been mainly fighting wars in..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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