The Miller Center’s Eric Edelman, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Ambassador to Turkey and Finland, discusses how nuclear strategic thinking began and how those debates resonate today.
“To have clout in the Middle East now, Washington needs to duel, to escalate whenever and wherever necessary for as long as necessary until its enemies are either defeated or deterred.”
They “provide unique windows into the presidency, helping us better understand how policy is made and power is used,” said Marc Selverstone, director of Presidential Studies and co-chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “You get it, as LBJ would have said, with the bark off.”