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A War of Endurance and Will

JL;DR SUMMARY In the ongoing US-Israel military campaign against Iran, success is being gauged more by endurance and strategic objectives than by initial strikes. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Us Israel RelationsMilitary CampaignMissile DefenseBallistic MissilesGeopolitical StrategyIran ConflictChina Iran RelationsOperation MadmanGlobal Oil MarketNuclear Escalation

Places mentioned

Iran
"its clear there is no knockout punch to take down Iran"
Israel
"as Israelis repeatedly sought shelter, sometimes in pajamas and a bathrobe"
United States
"Measuring success in the US-Israel military campaign against Iran is challenging"
Istanbul, Turkey
"Interesting Engineering (IE), an online publisher headquartered in New York and Istanbul"
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
"Iran has used missiles and drones against the UAE to target Dubais airport"
Qatar
"It forced Qatar to shut down a refinery that supplies about 20% of the worlds liquefied natural gas"
Kuwait
"Iran also attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain, Omans largest port, the US embassy in Kuwait"
Bahrain
"Iran also attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain"
Oman
"Irans largest port, the US embassy in Kuwait, and an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia"
Saudi Arabia
"Iran also attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain, Omans largest port, the US embassy in Kuwait, and an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia"
India
"traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, south of Iran, along the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, which handles some 80% of the worlds oil and LNG supplies, mainly the parts headed to Japan, India, China, and South Korea"
China
"traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, south of Iran, along the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, which handles some 80% of the worlds oil and LNG supplies, mainly the parts headed to Japan, India, China, and South Korea"
South Korea
"traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, south of Iran, along the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, which handles some 80% of the worlds oil and LNG supplies, mainly the parts headed to Japan, India, China, and South Korea"
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"We do know that Irans Fattah-1 missile, which they reportedly fired at Tel Aviv in June, has many of the characteristics of a hypersonic missile."
Russian Federation
"Last week, the Israeli open-source intelligence site Netziv.net posted a conversation with Vladimir Popov, a retired major-general in the Russian army."
Jerusalem, Israel
"The missile alert just sounded again, and I enter our Jerusalem buildings large below-ground bomb shelter, crowded with huddled residents."

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