Why Iran Was Unprepared for the Most Predictable of Attacks

If the 1973 Yom Kippur War provides the template for understanding the Israel-Hamas war that began on October 7, 2023, the 1967 Six-Day War might—as Luttwak suggests—provide the model for the present phase of the conflict between Israel and Iran. Iran was unprepared militarily for the assault on its nuclear installations that Israel has been threatening for over a decade, despite the facts that it has no air force to speak of and that Israel destroyed its most important air-defense capabilities in October—while demonstrating that IDF jets had the ability to strike Iranian territory. And not only that, Michael Doran writes, but its leading generals