A war meant to bend Tehran now traps Washington The Iranian crisis now carries all the familiar features of recent Western wars: overwhelming technological superiority, deep-strike capabilities, enormous military spending and, at the same time, uncertain political results, sometimes opposite to the stated goals. The United States has…
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Iran, the Geography of Attrition and the New War of Corridors Why Tehran Is Weaker, but No Less Central The temptation is strong: to look at Iran today, observe sanctions, oil difficulties, American military pressure, the rise of Turkey, the energy reorganization of the Gulf, and conclude that…
Survival as Strategy The real issue is not Donald Trump’s declaration of victory. The real issue is that behind that declaration one can already see a strategic vacuum. Washington can strike, destroy and wear down its adversary. But it still cannot convert military superiority into a definitive political…
No Longer a Local Crisis, but a Fracture in the System In the Western narrative, the war against Iran was supposed to be rapid, surgical, almost didactic: a few well-placed strikes, some infrastructure hit, a destabilized chain of command, and the usual belief that technological and military pressure…
Hormuz, Dimona, and the war Washington no longer seems able to control There is a contradiction that can no longer be concealed, and it concerns not only Donald Trump but the entire American administration. On one side, the White House lets it be known that it may gradually…
The central fact the West still struggles to accept is simple: the war against Iran, conceived as a rapid, surgical and politically decisive operation, is not delivering the result Washington and Tel Aviv expected. This is not because the United States and Israel lack technological superiority, firepower or…
Permanent War as the Architecture of the Middle East Syria did not collapse in a week. It collapsed under nearly thirty years of strategic pressure, thirteen years of war, and a long sequence of sanctions, infiltrations, covert operations, bombings, economic attrition, and diplomatic isolation. The gravest mistake would…
There is a point at which wars cease to be merely military campaigns and become systemic crises. In the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran, that point has a precise name: the Strait of Hormuz. But stopping at Hormuz, essential as it is, is still not…
Iran as target, improvisation as doctrine After several days of bombardment against Iran, the most striking fact is not only the violence of the offensive but the political confusion surrounding it. Donald Trump launched this war while speaking at once of destroying Iran’s nuclear program, wiping out Tehran’s…
A War That Does Not Protect Us There is one point Europe continues to avoid, as if it had become inconvenient even to name it: the attack on Iran is not merely another episode in the long hostility between the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic. It…