When a US president resorts to public expletives and the threat of war crimes to get his way in war, it takes a heroic effort to discern a strategy amid the disgrace. But to the extent Donald Trump is executing a plan, it is a version of the “escalate to de-escalate” doctrine attributed to Russian nuclear planners, in which they’d threaten the ultimate step to persuade an opponent to back down.This tactic very rarely works, either in the real world or war-gaming exercises. According to a 2024 Bu

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