Lawfare Daily: Escalate to What End? Trump's Plan for the Iran War After the Midterms

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Former NSC staffers Cole Bucy and Nate Swanson join Lawfare Contributing Editor and Vice President of Research, Security and Defense at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Ari Tabatabai and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee to discuss the Iran war eight months in and the administration's likely approach after the midterms. Cole and Nate's new piece in Foreign Policy, " Trump Unleashed " outlines why the president might escalate against Iran and why none of his options is likely to get him what he wants. Ari and Julia also discuss their piece in Foreign Policy, " How Could Iran Happen? An Autopsy ," examining how the president's war on the "Deep State" led to this debacle in the…