The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. 

Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. US senators have called it a blunder. 

Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war.

But this narrative is wrong. 

I have spent my academic career studying how states authorise the use of force through intelligence institutions, and what I see in the current campaign is a recognisable military operation proceeding through identifiable phases against an adversary whose capacity to project power is collapsing in real time.

Muhanad Seloom Al Jazeera 16 Mar 2026

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/16/the-us-israeli-strategy-against-iran-is-working-here-is-why

  

Muhanad Seloom is Assistant Professor of International Politics and Security at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.


https://www.aljazeera.com/


On Iran, Is Only Bad News Fit to Print?

Media partisanship has been worse than ever in this war.

Mark Penn and Andrew Stein Wall Street Journal March 16, 2026

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/on-iran-is-only-bad-news-fit-to-print-1ac66649




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