Why Intervention Is Easy By Harvey Sapolsky & Benjamin Friedman

Why Intervention Is Easy

By Harvey Sapolsky & Benjamin Friedman
America's halfhearted adventure in Libya falls within a cycle of U.S. military intervention since the end of the Cold War: Success brings hubris, hubris causes overreach and failure, and failure breeds caution - though not necessarily restraint. Once another cautious intervention seems to succeed, the cycle begins anew.

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