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As U.S. President Donald Trump considers a military strike on Iran, what are the options on his table? What will his military advisors recommend he should and shouldn’t do? David Petraeus has often been in the position of providing such advice to the White House, and he joins FP Live to explain what could happen in the coming days. Petraeus ran U.S. and allied forces in the Middle East as the head of Central Command (CENTCOM) and later ran the CIA.
Plus, One Thing from Ravi on the fourth anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
FP Contributors: Four Years of War in Europe
Marc Lynch: Four Scenarios for a Postwar Iran
Arash Reisinezhad and Arsham Reisinezhad: What War With Iran Would Look Like
Ali Hashem: The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran
Ali Hashem: Iran Dangerously Misunderstands Its Situation
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