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Trusting gut instincts to decide whether a military action is proportional opens a leader to psychological traps

  • Written by Paul Slovic, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
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Why did U.S. President Donald Trump recently call off a retaliatory strike against Iran?

The answer was proportionality: Trump said the American response to Iran’s downing of an American drone should be on a similar scale.

That decision, Trump said, came from his “gut.”

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