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Iran has not spent decades trying to match the United States conventionally.
Its military doctrine evolved around surviving conventional inferiority through disruption, attrition and cost imposition.
#Iran #AsymmetricWarfare 4/14
Sinking ships is a tactical achievement.
Maintaining uncontested maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz is a strategic one.
Those are not interchangeable concepts.
#MaritimeSecurity #MiddleEast 5/14
Much of Iran’s maritime threat sits with the IRGC Navy rather than the regular fleet.
Fast attack craft, mines, missiles and drones were designed specifically to avoid conventional naval parity.
#IRGC #MilitaryStrategy