> In neither case, despite what many deniers and apologists proclaim, was the war "winnable" by the military Basically, to win that war the US military should

> In neither case, despite what many deniers and apologists proclaim, was the war "winnable" by the military Basically, to win that war the US military should have been able to previously educate its politicians (i.e. the US politicians) and remind them that as "war is the continuation of politics by other means" so in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq a greater focus should have been given to politics before trying the war thing. After all that's what a guy like Clausewitz did, a general and military theorist whose work ended up educating lots and lots of politicians.