The US and Israel have declared air superiority over parts of Iran, which allows their aircraft to strike targets at will.
They have also shown a kind of intelligence superiority, a dominance that has enabled them to find and kill several Iranian leaders. But what is the strategy behind this? One answer is to focus on creating confusion.
The first move in this campaign was not the attack that hit the supreme leader’s compound, but hackers from the US Cyber Command and their Israeli counterparts. They blinded Iran’s ability to understand what was happening, preventing it from communicating and reacting, according to US military officials.
Using this advantage, senior leaders were targeted in several locations. They had been followed for months by the CIA and Mossad, among others. This was most likely done through long-term technical penetrations into Iranian communication systems as well as spies on the ground, often led by Mossad.
