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Law professors who are military veterans discussed how the idea of military victory has evolved across conflicts.

Military leaders and politicians must avoid rhetoric and provide clear goals for soldiers and the public during wars.

Words like victory and total victory imply an end state that is no longer achievable in the modern world.

A former lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces knows what it’s like to send a soldier into harm’s way.

Years ago, Amos Guiora, now a University of Utah law professor, ordered a lieutenant to go to Gaza. The words the young officer spoke before he left have stuck with Guiora the past three decades.

“‘If anything happens to me, you’re the one who will tell my parents and not the family notification unit,’” he quoted the lieutenant a

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