The beneficiaries of war

WARS are generally assessed through a binary lens. Strategic analysts, policymakers and the media tend to focus on a simple question — who won and who lost? The recent US-Iran war has generated a similar debate. Has Washington been able to achieve its objectives? Has Iran successfully withstood American military pressure and preserved its capacity to resist? But this binary framework overlooks another, often more consequential, dimension of modern warfare. Wars do not merely produce military ...

By [email protected] (Khurram Abbas)