Almost twenty days into the US-Israel Campaign against the Militant Mullahs in Tehran, and the scorecard is becoming quite clear. Operationally, the collaboration between CENTCOM and the IDF is having a devastating effect on Iran military assets. Strategically, however, battlefield defeat is yet to be translated into a decisive departure from past policy on Iran’s part, especially now with the energy and shipping crisis resulting from the clash over Hormuz being such a key factor within the Western Alliance and on the global stage.
