{"id":21845,"date":"2026-03-20T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21845"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:04:10","slug":"the-iran-escalation-trap-robert-pape-tmr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21845","title":{"rendered":"The Iran Escalation Trap | Robert Pape | TMR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Regime change wars have never been successful from the air with conventional weapons. Administrations get wooed by the ability to strike targets with precision from afar, and forget that blowing a bunch of stuff up and killing important people doesn&#8217;t end a regime&#8217;s ability to suppress its people or fight back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Iran Escalation Trap | Robert Pape | TMR\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YptXQ3UFumQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regime change wars have never been successful from the air with conventional weapons. Administrations get wooed by the ability to strike targets with precision from afar, and forget that blowing a bunch of stuff up and killing important people doesn&#8217;t end a regime&#8217;s ability to suppress its people or fight back. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YptXQ3UFumQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[253,552,221,272,355,167,314,156,191,170,619,158],"class_list":["post-21845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-air-force","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-government","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-strike","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21846,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21845\/revisions\/21846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}