More Diplomacy, Less Military Action

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 13, 2015

Anthony Zinni, retired four-star general in the US Marine Corp, former commander in chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), author (with Tony Koltz), of Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win Or Lose Off The Battlefield (St. Martin's Griffin, 2014), offers his take on the challenges of U.S. foreign policy and repeats his argument that we over-use military action when foreign aid and diplomacy would serve our ends better.

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