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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Americans beating their chests over sinking a single Iranian warship returning from joint drill

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Americans beating their chests over sinking a single Iranian warship returning from joint drill

The New Atlas (previously Land Destroyer) on Odysee

March 5, 20260m 15s

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Americans beating their chests over sinking a single Iranian warship returning from joint drills with India are missing the point.

Iran has warships. They are useful for specific tasks, valuable, and losing them costs Iran.

But Iran's strategy for defending itself against a US war of aggression did not include these ships.

It depends on 1000s of small boats with anti-ship missiles and other capabilities to create a naval version of its "mosaic" defense strategy.

Instead of consolidating Iran's naval capabilities into a handful of large expensive ships easy to track and sink, it has distributed these capabilities across many more, harder to find and target, easier to replace boats.

It remains to be seen how effective Iran's strategy is - but sinking Iranian warships at dock or in non-combat transit is symbolic, not symptomatic.
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