{"id":14434,"date":"2026-06-25T15:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/?p=14434"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:55:39","slug":"the-paradox-of-peace-through-strength-in-operation-epic-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/the-journal\/the-paradox-of-peace-through-strength-in-operation-epic-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PARADOX OF \u2018PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH\u2019 IN OPERATION EPIC FURY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><strong>Naveed Ahmad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">The author is a security policy fellow at the International Institute for Iranian Studies (Rasanah). He specializes in hybrid threats and the impact of advanced as well as disruptive technologies on geo-strategy and warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This paper examines the 2026 US\/Israel-Iran conflict as a critical test of the Trump administration\u2019s national security architecture, analyzing the friction between the National Security Strategy\u2019s vision of \u201cunprecedented peace\u201d and the National Defense Strategy\u2019s \u201cpeace through strength\u201d doctrine. The study examines whether the shift toward transactional realism, defined by the Department of War ethos and rigorous allied burden-sharing, effectively mitigated risks of regional entanglement. It also assesses&nbsp;if&nbsp;reliance on Israeli decapitation strikes against Iran inadvertently precipitated asymmetric retaliation, hence destabilizing the Gulf region&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naveed Ahmad The author is a security policy fellow at the International Institute for Iranian Studies (Rasanah). He specializes in hybrid threats and the impact of advanced as well as disruptive technologies on geo-strategy and warfare. Abstract This paper examines the 2026 US\/Israel-Iran conflict as a critical test of the Trump administration\u2019s national security architecture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14458,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14434\/revisions\/14458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}