Iranian missiles over the Israeli city of Ashdod on October 1, 2024. (Credit: Hazem Bader/AFP)
Israel and Iran are currently engaged in a vast confrontation across the Middle East. Each conducts this confrontation through different means, which only intensifies the violence. Iran and its regional allies are employing all the tactics of ‘asymmetric warfare,’ the principle of which is simple: as long as Iran's allies in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere can hold their ground, show their opposition to the Israeli state, and attack it by all means (bombings, attacks, fighting), they consider themselves victorious. The key lies in the fact that they operate within populations that are, a priori, sympathetic to their cause and fundamentally opposed to Israel. In response, Israel implements the strategy of ‘total war,’ which involves exerting multifaceted military, economic, social, and psychological pressure on these...
Israel and Iran are currently engaged in a vast confrontation across the Middle East. Each conducts this confrontation through different means, which only intensifies the violence. Iran and its regional allies are employing all the tactics of ‘asymmetric warfare,’ the principle of which is simple: as long as Iran's allies in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere can hold their ground, show their opposition to the Israeli state, and attack it by all means (bombings, attacks, fighting), they consider themselves victorious. The key lies in the fact that they operate within populations that are, a priori, sympathetic to their cause and fundamentally opposed to Israel. In response, Israel implements the strategy of ‘total war,’ which involves exerting multifaceted military, economic, social, and psychological pressure on...
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