Interesting that Iran has started using cluster munition missiles to strike Israel. Apparently Iran, Israel and US are some of the few countries that haven't signed the international convention banning cluster munitions. Israel has also used cluster munitions against the Hezbollahs.
Then it was a very strange choice to go to war with a neighbor that's known to have massive stockpiles of missiles.
Maybe it's just me, but if I were in such a suboptimal defensive materiel position, I would try diplomacy first. In fact, I would make it my mission to be the world recognized leader in diplomacy.
1. Israel's sugar daddy will give (as in gift) them all the munitions they need. They'll never come close to running out.
2. This is the country that's been crying wolf over Iran being months away from having the bomb for something like twenty years now, while having up to several hundred nukes of their own. Why should we believe them when they're crying wolf about running out of munitions?
I hope they have their Cuito Cuanavale[1] moment and follow the steps of South Africa in replacing their own version of the apartheid regime with democracy.
That's the plan in both Lebanon and Iran. Send out an initial impulse and steady stream of drones and ballistic missiles to expend expensive interceptors that take a long time to make. Make it seem like the traditional launch capability and stockpiles are low. After that time, Iran and/or Lebanon maintain an option to ready and launch underground-stockpiled Shaheeds and similar from improvised launchers on the back of pickup trucks and trailers by the hundreds/thousands to obliterate US bases and major Israeli cities like Haifa and Tel Aviv. That's the most likely scenario should Iran/Lebanon decide escalation would be essential for existential defense.
I have lost patience with Israel. The state behaves like a hopelessly spoiled child because they know their stupid parent will bail them out of any bad situation of their own making. I'm quite disgusted with both of them.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 39.4 ms ] threadMaybe it's just me, but if I were in such a suboptimal defensive materiel position, I would try diplomacy first. In fact, I would make it my mission to be the world recognized leader in diplomacy.
https://taxpayersforpeace.org/
1. Israel's sugar daddy will give (as in gift) them all the munitions they need. They'll never come close to running out.
2. This is the country that's been crying wolf over Iran being months away from having the bomb for something like twenty years now, while having up to several hundred nukes of their own. Why should we believe them when they're crying wolf about running out of munitions?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cuito_Cuanavale
https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-889435
Iran is actually attacking their former close friends at the gulf uninvolved civilian population centers more often than it attacks Israel
EDIT: fixed to 92%