Veni, vidi… and did I understand?

For 12 days, the world was mesmerized by the images. Missiles streaking across the sky. Fighter jets flying thousands of kilometers. Explosions at strategic facilities. It seemed obvious that we were witnessing a technological war. Yet the longer I watched those images, the more unsettling a feeling became: we were all looking in the same direction, while the real battle seemed to be taking place somewhere else.

Not over Natanz. Not over Fordow. Not even over Tel Aviv or Tehran. The decisive battle was unfolding in a narrow body of water called the Strait of Hormuz. I suspect that one of the main strategic lessons of this conflict lies there.

For years, we debated whether Iran would manage to build an atomic bomb. Perhaps the more important question was........

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