Discover how the Taiwan Asymmetric Warfare Playbook integrates critical drone and maritime lessons from Ukraine and Iran to counter Chinese aggression.
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Excluding Türkiye from European defense guarantees failure. NATO’s 500,000-troop force plan needs Turkish and Ukrainian mass. EU-only cannot work.
Iran’s conventional navy sunk, but IRGC’s mosquito fleet and mines keep Hormuz contested. Elite fragmentation paralyzes diplomacy.
US blockade on Iran begins. Coercive economic warfare replaces diplomacy as nuclear and missile gaps prove unbridgeable.
“Iran is no longer signaling restraint. It is signaling reach, and doing so under live warfighting conditions.”
“If your head and your heart is not in it when you go to war, it’s going to be a lot more difficult to accomplish your objectives.”
Iran escalates energy war to water vulnerability, targeting Gulf desalination plants that sustain 90 percent of regional drinking water.
Toward a theory of victory: focus on IRGC as center of gravity. Need political warfare, defection pathways.
Operation Epic Fury: US struck 5,000+ targets, Iran’s tempo declined. Water infrastructure targeted. NATO dimension.
Operation Epic Fury degrades Iran’s military capacity, forcing a strike decline while the regime struggles amid this intensifying regional conflict.