America keeps bombing Iran. It still can’t define what winning looks like

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In my recent Washington Examiner op-ed, I argued that the greatest danger in confronting Iran is not necessarily losing a war, but stopping before achieving a durable strategic outcome. If an adversary survives, regroups, and rebuilds, what appears to be victory today can become tomorrow’s conflict.

That observation raises a more fundamental question, one Washington has never answered with sufficient clarity: What does victory over Iran actually mean?

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