Brute Force vs Strategy — Iraq War Veteran Phil Klay on America’s War Thinking
About this episode
Philip Klay discusses his insights on American war thinking and his recent article on Iran.
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.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/opinion/trump-iran-war-memes.html
More episodes of The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table
- Military Expert Andrew Fox: Gaza Casualties, Hamas Propaganda and the Iran War
- Eliot Cohen: 3 Things the Consensus Gets Wrong About the Iran War
- From Cranks on the Fringe to Tucker Carlson: How Ideas Go Off the Rails with Jamie Kirchick
- The Dangerous Rise of Conspiracy Thinking-Trump, Iran and JFK
- Walter Russell Mead: Weighing Action vs Inaction in Iran
- Robert Pape: There’s No Military Solution on Iran – Only Diplomacy and “Containing” Israel
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table podcast page.