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"Special operations continue to be our greatest hedge against strategic distraction, used to impose cost on our adversaries, reestablish deterrence, and provide the nation with a position of advantage should deterrence fail," Rep. Jackson said. "We ask a lot of our Special Operations Forces, and the demands on and for them will only continue to grow."
The abduction of President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela by US forces demonstrated an expanded vision of full spectrum dominance. The success of this raid stands in stark contrast to earlier failures and is attributable to the tactics, techniques, and technology Joint Special Operations Command developed over the course of thousands of kill/capture missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. It replaces a linear construct with something operationally and conceptually new: a mobile column of battlespace that can be opened anytime, anyplace.
Bombed the Wrong Target
We Bombed the Wrong Target
March 10, 2026 by Joe Funderburke Leave a Comment
Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of Small Wars Journal as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on 03.02.2026 and is available here.
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Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign launched on February 28, 2026, has destroyed significant elements of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and decapitated portions of its leadership. What it has not destroyed, and what no air campaign alone can destroy, is Iran’s forty-year strategic investment in a distributed proxy architecture spanning Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Gaza. The nuclear program was always the headline threat; the proxy network is the enduring one. As the Houthis resume attacks on Red Sea shipping and Kataib Hezbollah threatens U.S. bases across Iraq, the morning after Operation Epic Fury reveals a strategic truth that American planners have long resisted: when you remove a state’s conventional deterrent, you do not produce a compliant state, you produce a state with every incentive to fight asymmetrically, indefinitely, and below the threshold of direct confrontation. This article argues that Iran’s proxy network now functions as its primary strategic center of gravity, that the network was specifically designed to survive exactly this kind of decapitation strike, and that the United States must develop a coherent post-kinetic strategy to address it, or risk winning the battle and losing the war.
A core challenge in modern great power competition is effectively responding to the ambiguous, non-military forms of activities characterized as part of the “gray zone”. Russia is actively engaging in these operations in critical areas where the West has its shared interest, such as the Western Balkans. Moscow’s goals in this tense region are to diminish European Union and the U.S. influence, reverse Euro-Atlantic integration, and keep the countries of former Yugoslavia in a constant state of turmoil.
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