39 Days of War: Did the US and Israel Actually Fail to Break Iran? | In Our Defence | S3 | Ep 46
In Our DefenceShow Notes
After 39 days of war, Iran has agreed to a temporary ceasefire and the Strait of Hormuz is back in focus. But the big question remains: what exactly did this war achieve?
In this episode of In Our Defence, host Dev Goswami and national security expert Sandeep Unnithan unpack how the conflict escalated, why the war's goals seemed to keep shifting, and why, despite taking enormous punishment, Iran still ended up at the negotiating table without complete submission.
We get into:
How the US and Israel framed the war, and how those aims evolved Whether Iran was defeated militarily but survived strategically What this conflict revealed about air defence and modern missile warfare Why this war may go down as a lesson in the limits of overwhelming force Whether the ceasefire can actually hold And the biggest long-term question of all: does this make Iran more likely to want the bomb?
This is not just a story about Iran, Israel, or the US. It is also a story about miscalculation, resilience, and what modern war looks like when even massive military superiority cannot produce a neat political outcome.
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