The Institutions Deliver—From the War on Terror to Operation Epic Fury
- Jeff Kellick
- Mar 3
- 1 min read
Contemporary Application to the Empire of Liberty: America's Foreign Entanglements from the Founders to the Forever War - Ep. 08
As American military operations in Iran continue, this contemporary application episode examines how the national security state—built for the Cold War, expanded for the War on Terror—has delivered the very outcome the Old Right warned against and Donald Trump himself promised to prevent. We trace the War on Terror framework that enables executive war-making without congressional authorization, the transformation of campaign promises into regime change, and the global application of targeted killing methodology from Mexico to Venezuela to Iran. The episode connects the institutions built in 1947, first deployed in Iran in 1953, to the war now underway—a seventy-three-year arc of consequences.
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