Now that the Israelis have dealt a devastating blow to the top strategic leadership of both Hezbollah and Hamas, a limited war between iran israel news may not be very far off. Until now, Israel’s military operations were actually against non- state actors with territorial significance. But Iran is also a military nation with missile and nuclear capabilities.
The nature of today’s warfare is long-drawn as well as elusive, as deduced from the Russia–Ukraine War. iran israel news might have had its tactical reckoning about the war, its extension across the region and the probable consequences. Nor would it go the whole hog unless it felt sure it could win a rapid and conclusive campaign or, at any rate, incapacitate Iran’s offence power.
Israel and Iran are not, in fact, neighbors in the conventional sense of the term, or in terms of geographical proximity. It is argued that Israel and Lebanon are separated by a huge geomorphological space that is occupied by Jordan and Iraq. The minimum distance between the grounds of Tel Aviv and Tehran is more than 1,900 km.
The shortest ground distance between their respective border is again 9,00 km Interesting enough, all Iranian vitol nuclear and millitary installations are located deep inside Iranian territory. As a result sustaining military offence operations on the ground is an impossibility.
This also affords that even airborne combat operations using fighter aircraft would equally not be feasible since Jordon and Iraq would not allow their skies for use by military operations of third party actors. Israel and Iran have to rely on intermediate range ballistic missiles and drones in order to fire volleys at each other.
The intensity and frequency of these missile and drone attacks could therefore not be sustained over long period. For this reason, unlike other theatres of war, this war would only happen in occur at predefined intervals.
In other words, depending on the balance of the opposition’s armed forces to the government’s armed forces, the former could win the war in the coming war. The website www.globalfire.com is one of the official military websites and offers an annual report on the military strength of countries. In the 2024 edition, Iran occupies Rank-14 while Israel occupies Rank-17.
However, it seems that formal reports tend to be inaccurate, and the actual situation can be quite different. Several factors put in a drastically preferential position the Israeli military force regarding Iran, albeit incomplete information. First, Israel boasts of one of the most developed Domestic MICs.
The constant state and not-state actor threats in its periphery have nurtured a manufacture culture that produces weapons best suited for Middle Eastern warfare theatrics. It also guarantees that the military entrepreneurs and businesspersons understand what would be effective in Israel against its foes.
Maybe that explains why Israeli drones, satellites, surveillance weapons, and missile defence systems have an enormous market demand internationally. Iran does not even appear in any such discourses at all.
Second, Israel’s defence budget, which was at $27.5 bn in 2023, was at least 2.5 times that of Iran, $10.3 bn of which was according to Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). This affords Israel a huge advantage over Iran in acquiring current generation equipment (like F-35 fighter that Israel sources from the US).
Iran, for its part, does not even have sufficient funds when it comes to the acquisition of weapons from other countries. It has now landed on its present position of the 135th position amongst arms importing countries.
In addition, the long years of sanctions around the globe has affected Iran’s weapons programs as well. It only, possesses a rather ill-maintained assemble of various tanks and fighter jets. I was actually in a position to place a supply order for import of 24 fighter jets into Iran only last year.
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