THE recent Iran vs US/Israel war has reshaped global strategic thinking. A regional conflict soon erupted into a war with global suffering. The world continues to pay up: the price of commodities has increased 30-40 percent in major categories; fuel shortages have hit supply chains and fertilizer is threatening food security in regions susceptible to vulnerability. Yet amid the suffering, several clear lessons have emerged. The war demonstrated one overriding truth: the size of a country or the sophistication of its arsenal matters far less than the determination of its people when fused with smart technology. Traditional measures of power GDP, army strength, billion-dollar weaponry proved to be second-best to solve, creativity and flexibility.

Among the most notable lessons of this war is that high-end technology does not necessarily mean invincibility. The US aircraft carriers, which were already the epitome of global power projection, were left in the background and they managed to stay outside the Persian Gulf to avoid the no-go zones established by the advanced anti-access/area-denial capabilities of Iran. USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier even went around Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) to join naval force in the Arabian Sea rather than going through Suez Canal and Red Sea, denting........

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