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As the dust settles from President Donald Trump\u2019s war with Iran and his envoys negotiate for something resembling lasting peace, analysts are debating the fallout from the conflict. On Wednesday, one leading naval war educator laid out the key lessons from the war and explained why \u201cthe damage will not be undone when the Trump administration is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Writing for the Atlantic<\/u>, Johns Hopkins University strategic studies expert Eliot A. Cohen began by explaining why the peace plan as it stands now is \u201ca capitulation masquerading as an agreement.\u201d Trump\u2019s memorandum of understanding (MOU) enriches the Iranian regime \u201cto the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars,\u201d betrays U.S. allies and may end up providing Iran with ongoing control over the Strait of Hormuz. From there, Cohen lays out several key lessons that emerged from the conflict, a disaster that he says was driven by \u201csimple arrogance.\u201d<\/p>\n

First, while the Iranian military was badly damaged, \u201cthe regime has now experienced viscerally what it before knew only theoretically: the power of its hold on the Strait of Hormuz. It has demonstrated its reach throughout the region, and, to itself and to those inclined to align with it, its enduring strength vis-\u00e0-vis the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second, the conflict showed the limitations of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s hostile approach. According to Cohen, Netanyahu has \u201cpresided over a shocking deterioration in Israel\u2019s international position, the collapse of its support among Democrats and many Republicans in the United States and a resumption of a war it thought it had won against Hezbollah in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there were the wider geopolitical lessons. Writes Cohen, \u201cNo one can go back to believing that oil supplies passing through the Strait of Hormuz are reliably secure. The Arab Gulf States will have to choose between straightforward appeasement of Iran and submission to many of its wishes\u2014the choice apparently made by Qatar and possibly Oman \u2014 and a more mixed posture of bribes and armament such as that of the United Arab Emirates.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For militaries around the globe, \u201cthe war confirms some of the great lessons of the Russia-Ukraine war: that it is much easier to deny access to or use of key terrain than to seize it; that there is an urgent need to shift to cheaper, mass-produced precision munitions for both offensive and defensive use; that numbers matter; that air supremacy \u2014 the kind of control the Allies exerted over Normandy beaches in 1944, for example\u2014is a thing of the past, having been subverted by ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones; that swift, smashing victories are usually chimeras of the political imagination; and, unfortunately, that indifference to the suffering of one\u2019s own population and a readiness to inflict misery on an opponent\u2019s civilians pay strategic dividends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, and \u201cmost of all, this war has demonstrated profound American weaknesses.\u201d As Cohen explains, \u201cThe damage will not be undone when the Trump administration is gone, two and a half long years from now, because it is the American way of war itself that this conflict has called into question.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Cohen, the American approach was \u201ca strategic and operational style relying on relatively small, extremely advanced forces that did not have mobilizational depth behind them \u2014 not people, not munitions, not platforms. It was predicated on having enough time to build up to confront an enemy, as was the case in both the Gulf and Iraq wars. It rested on secure bases near the enemy, which would suffer only attacks that could be easily parried. It assumed that the initiative would rest with the U.S., and that allies would play along, despite whatever doubts they might have. It underinvested in both active defenses (e.g. surface-to-air missiles) and passive defenses (e.g. hardened aircraft shelters).\u201d The weakness to this stance, he argues, can no longer be denied.<\/p>\n

In the end, Cohen concludes, \u201cMuch of the problem was simple arrogance. Hubris, according to Greek myth, is punished by the goddess Nemesis. Unfortunately, not just the guilty parties will feel her lash. And the worst of it is that America\u2019s political and military leaders may not yet realize that that is what is happening, nor just how far-reaching her punishments may be.\u201d<\/p>\n

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