The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power

Dr. Pape is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago who studies military strategy and international security.

In recent years, the conventional geopolitical wisdom has been that the world order was moving toward three centers of power: the United States, China and Russia. That view assumed that power derived primarily from economic scale and military capability.

That assumption no longer holds. A fourth center of global power is quickly emerging — Iran — that does not........

© The New York Times