Detailed view for this entity.
“Regime change implies a long-standing commitment in which the United States engages in serious nation building efforts. What we're talking about here is regime destruction or replacement where we knock over a regime and let it fall and then we don't actually participate in long-term nation building.”
“The fundamental lesson to learn is the easier it is to change a regime, the less likely it is you're going to have a good outcome.”
“That is the reason, and a lot of these are the concerns that people had about doing a regime change operation because you can't control the outcome, especially not from the outside. This is something that you would want to happen organically from within the country in some controlled fashion.”
“Can you successfully undertake a regime change operation solely from the air? Well, I think even with ground troops, uh, trying to social engineer a foreign government is, uh, incredibly difficult... trying to do that without a meaningful ground presence I think is going to be virtually impossible.”