Iran war strategy: Peace through resistance

Three weeks into the war, Donald Trump finds himself trapped in a conflict of his own making. What was framed as a campaign of rapid coercion—measured in hours and ultimatums—is now unfolding on a timeline defined not in Washington, but in Tehran. For years, the conventional wisdom in Washington and Tel Aviv held that Iran could be contained through a combination of economic strangulation and targeted assassination—a “decapitation” strategy designed to decapitate the Islamic Republic’s command structure without triggering a full‑scale war. That assumption is now being tested to destruction. What we are witnessing is not a random escalation but a collision of two fundamentally different strategic logics. The United States and Israel are fighting in the domain where they […]