Ambassador Stan Escudero, a multi-time U.S. ambassador who was on the ground in Tehran during the 1979 Revolution and served as POLAD to CENTCOM in 1988, joined Brig. Gen. Ernie Audino on Frontlines of Freedom to discuss the brutal Iran-Iraq War and its lessons for today.
On Frontlines of Freedom, Amb. Stan Escudero joined the program on the 46th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq War, a brutal war with at least one million casualties, trench warfare, human-wave attacks, and widespread use of chemical weapons, in which after eight years no terrain was gained and neither side was victorious. Escudero, a multi-time U.S. ambassador, was on the ground undercover in Tehran during the 1979 Revolution, and he was POLAD to CENTCOM in 1988 when Ayatollah Khomeini decided to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. He shared insights into the Iranian regime and discussed how devastating the war was for both sides, why Iran eventually agreed to a ceasefire, and the lessons for today.
Brig. Gen. Ernie Audino, US Army (Ret.), is a Senior Military Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C. based foreign policy and defense think tank. He hosts Frontlines of Freedom, a nationally syndicated military news and talk radio program.
