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How Israel’s Operation Rising Lion Dismantled Iran from Within: A Case Study in the Art of Deception [[link removed]]

Rather than kinetically destroying Tehran’s defensive infrastructure, Israel cognitively bypassed it. Zineb Riboua [[link removed]] explains how Operation Rising Lion leveraged the art of deception in a new Hudson policy memo [[link removed]].

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Iran Strikes Israel, Oil Fields Ablaze, and Will the US Enter the War? [[link removed]]

Iran knew that its best tool to restrain Israel was American policy, argued Michael Doran [[link removed]]. On Honestly with Bari Weiss [[link removed]], he explained how Israel’s decapitation strike against Iran disrupted Tehran’s strategy and weakened the regime.

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What America Knew Before the Strikes, and Where Iran’s Nuclear Program Stands [[link removed]]

“Clearly the United States understood what was happening,” said Rebeccah Heinrichs [[link removed]] following Israel’s covert operation against Iran. On CNN [[link removed]], she emphasized the strategic implications of Israel’s strike and the setback it poses to Iran’s nuclear program.

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Netanyahu Flips the Script [[link removed]]

In The Wall Street Journal [[link removed]], Walter Russell Mead [[link removed]] reflects on his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just before Israel’s strikes began. Mead explains how, in a matter of days, Netanyahu pivoted from a political low into a bold offensive that “will define his place in history.”

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Will Washington Learn from Israel’s Strikes? [[link removed]]

Israel’s operation should serve as a wake-up call for US policymakers, writes Michael Sobolik [[link removed]]. In The Wall Street Journal [[link removed]], he warns that Beijing may already have kill switches to sabotage critical technology in the US, and that Washington should ban Chinese Communist Party–controlled technology in US critical infrastructure to combat this threat.

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Before you go . . .

In a new policy memo [[link removed]], William Schneider [[link removed]] lays out the novel nuclear delivery systems Russia has developed and explains how Moscow’s coercive threats have constrained US policy.

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