The strategy of Washington and Tel Aviv to drag Tehran into a war of attrition risks evolving into a boomerang, according to the well known American foreign policy analyst and retired lieutenant colonel Daniel Davis.
Speaking to the Tasnim agency, Daniel Davis made it clear that Iran possesses an extremely resilient social and state structure, which cannot be easily defeated in a long term war of attrition, underlining that the United States and Israel are the ones who will ultimately pay the heavy price of this conflict.
The fine line between national survival and government errors
The analysis of Daniel Davis focuses on the psychology and the endurance of peoples when they come faced with the consequences of war.
As he points out, there is a huge difference when a nation suffers because it fights an imposed battle for its very survival, as opposed to the case where a government decides on its own to undertake an unnecessary military action that simply burdens the population with an unbearable cost.
When citizens realize that their sacrifices are the result of mistaken and unnecessary choices of their leadership, dissatisfaction and anger swell dangerously, threatening the internal stability of the attacking states themselves.
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