Brute Force vs Strategy — Iraq War Veteran Phil Klay on America’s War Thinking

Philip Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He is an author, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and other esteemed publications. We discuss his recent piece in The New York Times, “Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran.”

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Brute Force vs Strategy — Iraq War Veteran Phil Klay on America’s War Thinking is an episode from The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table by Comedy Cellar Network.

This episode is 70:20 long.

This episode was published on Mar 27, 2026.

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