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America picked a fight with history — and history won (Part 3)
America picked a fight with history — and history won (Part 3) This is a three-part series on the 106-day Iran War and what the United States got catastrophically wrong Part Three: After the Smoke, the Harder Question History's judgment of wars is almost never about the fighting. It is about what comes after. The Marshall Plan mattered more than D-Day. Not because D-Day wasn't necessary, but because winning the war was merely the condition for the real work. Germany and Japan became what they became — anchors of demo June 16, 2026