How to lose a navy in 10 days: US-Israel struck 60+ Iranian ships in four-phase all-domain campaign.
Browsing: Strategy
Iran’s war strategy: don’t calibrate—escalate. Horizontal, vertical expansion. No off-ramps in sight.
Trump’s cyber strategy falls short: omits China, Iran; offense-first but capacity stretched, agencies weakened.
Israel’s forever wars: strategy shifted from deterrence to dominance/degradation. War now the arrangement itself.
China-Iran relations tested: Beijing’s restrained response—domestic focus, balancing Gulf ties, regime uncertainty.
Trump’s ill-fated ‘mowing the grass’: war without clear end state, tactical successes ≠ strategic victory.
Trump fell into Iran’s trap: believed firepower alone could force surrender before Hormuz became pressure tool.
Iran’s ‘forward defence’ becomes strategic boomerang: axis of resistance drew Tehran into open war.
Iran’s real war is against global economy: Hormuz choked, Gulf infrastructure targeted. Strategy, not supremacy.
What Trump didn’t know: 47 years of missed opportunities, miscalculations. History haunts.