Iran attacked Israel with missiles on October 1.
These attacks were carried out targeting even the Israeli capital. In response, Israel carried out strikes in Iran on Saturday.
These attacks were carried out even in Tehran and Iran’s military bases were damaged.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has also said that Iran will suffer a big loss. Yet Israel took caution not to target Iran’s power grid, nuclear weapons facilities, and civilian institutions.
Defense experts believe that Israel has chosen this method of attack so that the war is not allowed to spread on a large scale and the message also reaches Iran.
This type of attack by Israel is being called Preventive War. This is called the strategy of war, when the attacking country attacks the enemy thoughtfully and also takes care that the war does not become too fierce.
In such a situation, often the attacking country attacks just to make the opponent realize its power. Preventive war often occurs when someone has attacked first and must respond.
Under preventive war, the countries that faced the first attack often respond, but its intensity is not so high that the war expands significantly. Often its purpose is to convey the message that do not underestimate us.
In a research paper titled Preventive Wars, Los Ebbink and Lu Dong write, ‘When a new power emerges or a new challenge arises, a powerful country is often in a situation of preventive war.
Such a situation is like a two-way bargaining game. This often happens in the case of a new emerging power, when the old powers demonstrate their strength to counter it.
Israel has also tried to do something similar. Defense experts believe that Benjamin Netanyahu has carried out this level of attack under domestic pressure to send a message that Iran has been given a befitting reply and the war should not escalate further.
Did Israel accept America’s words, what would be the benefit?
Not only this, limited attacks from Israel have also been beneficial for Iran. Iran will no longer face the challenge of responding to Israel’s attack.
There will be no domestic pressure on the Iranian government to respond to Israel’s attack under any circumstances. In this way a limited war situation has been created. It is being said that America also had the same advice to Israel and it has followed it.
America has been saying that Israel should not expand this war too much. He may keep attacking Hezbollah and Hamas, but should not go directly to war with any country.
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