Iran’s Residual Warfighting Capacity After the 2026 U.S.–Israeli Campaign: Why Official Damage Claims and Iranian Survival Claims Can Both Be Simultaneously True

Abstract Abstract. The most defensible analytic conclusion, using only live-accessed official and primary institutional material available during the earlier draft, is not that either side’s public narrative is wholly accurate. It is that the war has produced a classic battlefield-assessment asymmetry in which visible destruction has been substantial, but the surviving coercive system almost certainly … Leggi tutto Iran’s Residual Warfighting Capacity After the 2026 U.S.–Israeli Campaign: Why Official Damage Claims and Iranian Survival Claims Can Both Be Simultaneously True