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June 3, 2020

In Iraq, the U.S. Can Learn from Israel’s Approach to Confronting Iran

The campaign between the wars.

By using its extensive network of local militias to attack American troops and diplomats, Tehran has been trying to drag Washington into a war of attrition on Iraqi soil. To deter the Islamic Republic while preventing escalation, Eliora Katz and Eyal Tsir Cohen urge the U.S. to look to the Jewish state, which has for years been systematically targeting Iranian military installations in Syria. The IDF, waging what it calls the “campaign between the wars,” has conducted hundreds of air raids, degrading Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria, while provoking only very limited response by keeping enemy casualties low and maintaining deterrence. Katz and Cohen write:

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