In this essay, Sir John Jenkins KCMG LVO — Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iraq — dismantles the argument that we must ‘learn the lessons’ of the 2003 military activity in Iraq when considering the recent US strikes on Iran.

You can read the essay published here in The Spectator and also the seminal Policy Exchange paper ‘The Iran Question and British Strategy‘ (2023) here.

The launch of this essay was covered by:

• The Spectator (1)
• The Spectator (2)
• The Critic