“The Iranians have a strategy, and we don’t,” a former senior U.S. Defence Department official told Al-Monitor: “We’re getting bogged down in tactical weeds – of whom to target and how – and nobody’s thinking strategically.” The former Indian diplomat MK Bhadrakumar has coined the term “swarming” to describe this process of non-state actors miring the U.S. in the tactical attrition – from the Levant to the Persian Gulf. “Swarming” has been associated more recently with a...
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