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Source: https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-888898
The U.S. and Israel Reshape the Middle East
(Jerusalem Post) Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin - Operation Roaring Lion, aka Epic Fury, marks a strategic inflection point, repositioning Israel as a preferred U.S. security partner - willing and capable to share operational risk and defense burdens alongside Washington. Israel's targeted strikes on Iran underscore a clear disparity in military capabilities, with Israel enjoying a decisive edge in air power, technology, intelligence, and the ability to integrate these elements into a single operational system. There are very few countries able to combine precise intelligence with real-time strike capabilities the way Israel does, hitting targets 1,800 km. away with pinpoint accuracy. Toppling a regime by airstrikes is extremely difficult, particularly given that the Islamic Republic has demonstrated that it can mobilize significant loyal forces to fight with considerable brutality. Still, a successful campaign that strikes at Iran's political, religious, and military leadership and strips it of key military capabilities could force it to focus on its own survival at the expense of its destabilizing activities in the region. This is a just war, launched in the wake of the massacre of tens of thousands of protesters in Iran - a massacre met with relative silence in the West - and against the backdrop of Iran's refusal to curb its nuclear and missile programs. The writer, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence, served for a decade as executive director of Israel's Institute for National Security Studies.