Iran has been deliberately decentralizing their command and control structures for the last 20 years, after watching the US blow away Saddam's centralized command in Iraq.
Iran has conceived an entirely different manner of combat:
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"The US-Israeli stand-off air-strike model of waging war is being challenged by a quite different strategic asymmetric war — one first planned by Iran more than 20 years ago.
"This is important to understand when trying to judge where the war balance sheet truly lies.
"It is like comparing oranges with lemons; they are essentially different in character.
"The US and Israel are dropping a lot of stand-off munitions at Iran, but to what point and to what effect?
"We don’t know.
"We do, however, know that Iran has its asymmetric war plan.
"And it is only just starting, incrementally moving towards full implementation.
"The full armoury of Iranian missiles has not yet been revealed — neither its latest missiles, nor its submersible drones and anti-ship-equipped missile speed boats that have yet to be deployed. So we do not know Iran's full potential..."
I am not judging upon this war, from being right or wrong - I am just analyzing the military capabilities of the parties involved.
After the Israel-US attack onto Iran 2025 - China & Russia investigated onto Iran's IT and command structure, and found it be to TOTALLY compromised. Worse then a Swiss cheese.
A de-centralization therefore means that the channeling of information (and disruption of information) is even worse, then if Iran would have a centralized structure. Now I wouldn't know how much China was able to reset since July 2025. However the initial US/Israeli strikes onto Iran's leadership (they were warned hours before the strike by China), including strike time, Israeli and US assets being used, right down to their flight-path coordinates), and Iran's actions resp. non-action looked desolate.
This was partially due to Iranian insider-information passed to Israel & the US regarding IT resets, right down to treason by some of it's highest ranking staff, withholding critical information that needed to be multi-channeled to a obviously nonfunctional de-centralized organization.
As for asymmetric warfare in the Middle-East - they only got Hezbollah left - and Hezbollah got to deal with their own survival.
Huthis & Hamas well questionable at the least - especially the latter, obviously incapable of action so far. Iraqi insurgents, presently not worth bothering about.
Iran could attack Basra and Kuwait easily (based on paper bar-graphics depicting military assets) - they are not doing it, why? Because they don't want others e.g. NATO to come in to help Iraq and Kuwait, (respectively Israel & USA), or simply because they lack the conventional capability to do so - they presently as you know, don't even have an air-force anymore.
TACO and his Brylecreem-boy at the Pentagon obviously failed to listen to those who perfectly know their military trade. If they would factually have left it to them - the entire Iran attack would have been conducted differently. (Bibi must be terribly enraged and disappointed).
But TACO isn't interested in a painstaking, costly, time-consuming and professional military endeavor - but simply making cheap headlines. e.g. destroying Iranian infrastructure and it's oil ports.
So the question to me now is: can/did he overcome his narcissistic and arrogant personalty - or will he just continue to make cheap headlines and lastly chicken out.
