The US-Israel war on Iran has entered what military strategists are calling a war of attrition — a grinding, prolonged conflict in which neither side can deliver a decisive knockout blow and both absorb mounting losses in pursuit of strategic exhaustion of the enemy. The war of attrition dynamic that has emerged in the Iran conflict echoes some of history’s most studied conflicts, from the war of attrition civil war parallels of the American South to the original War of Attrition between Egypt and Israel from 1967 to 1970. Understanding…
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