It strikes me that Iran so far is the country that got closest to possessing an effective conventional deterrence. Nukes are the gold standard, but if Washington rhetoric is anything to go by this conventional umbrella negatively influenced those pushing for belligerency for some time.
It strikes me that Iran so far is the country that got closest to possessing an effective conventional deterrence. Nukes are the gold standard, but if Washington rhetoric is anything to go by this conventional umbrella negatively influenced those pushing for belligerency for some time.
True, hard to imagine any single chokepoint nearly as important as the SoH.