The USA and Israel entered the war with Iran "by the book" — but ended up with the Ukrainian experience, without which this war cannot be understood
The war with Iran quickly revealed a truth that is almost always understood after the first strikes: war exists not in doctrines, not in staff slides, and not in beautiful briefings, but in practice. You can pre-plan an air campaign, designate priority targets, calculate the pace of strikes, and declare that technological superiority is on the side of the US and Israel. But then the real conflict begins — and it turns out that millions of dollars are spent not only on destroying the military potential of the Islamic Republic but on urgent and expensive combat against Iranian 'Shaheds'. And this is where the most unpleasant part begins for Washington, Jerusalem, and Iran's neighboring countries. Because Ukrainians 'met' these drones not yesterday or the day before, but in the first months of Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine. While American offices considered Iranian drones as an element of someone else's conflict, Ukraine was already becoming a real t...
