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Iran's April 2024 drone and missile response against Israel, treated by Jiang as a strategic signal rather than a conventional damage-maximizing strike.
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Operation True Promise
Iran's April 2024 drone and missile response against Israel, treated by Jiang as a strategic signal rather than a conventional damage-maximizing strike.
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Jiang says Operation True Promise involved roughly 300 drones and missiles, and that Israel framed the lack of damage as proof of Israeli defense superiority while Iran framed it as deliberate restraint.
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Jiang argues that Iran's account of a deliberately harmless strike is more credible because Iran has to be strategic in responding to militarily dominant American and Israeli opponents.
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Jiang says Iran's True Promise strike package cost roughly $10 to $30 million while Israel spent at least $1 billion defending against it, making the exchange an example of asymmetrical warfare.
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Jiang argues Operation True Promise was designed to satisfy all four matrix goals: show Iranians that Iran can strike back, signal willingness to fight to allies and major powers, preserve global opinion by avoiding casualties, and provoke tension between Israel and the United States.
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Jiang says the United States restrained Israel after Operation True Promise because the United States cannot afford another war and would likely lack NATO, Saudi, UAE, Jordanian, or other Middle Eastern participation.
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Jiang concludes that Operation True Promise achieved little from a military-dominance perspective but achieved all four goals from an asymmetrical-warfare perspective.
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"...know, the Iranians had to respond, and this was called Operation True Promise."
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"And the idea of True Promise was that there's a strike package, okay, consisting of 300 drones and missiles that hit Israel. Now, what..."
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"is that the total package, the strike package, that the Iranians used cost about $10 to $30 million. But how much money did the..."
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"...let's look at a concrete example. The concrete example is Operation True Promise. Why did Iran design Operation True Promise? Operation True Promise, the..."
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"Win global opinion. Now, what Iran said is we designed the strike to not cause damage in Israel. And the reason why is it..."
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"Does that make sense? All right. And the last thing is weaken the enemy. Why would this weaken the enemy? Well, because after Iran..."
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"...why... So in other words, from a military dominance perspective, Operation True Promise accomplished nothing, okay? Because you blew nothing up. But from an..."
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Iran's missile strike is read not as a failed attack, but as a demonstration of asymmetrical strategy: choose the battlefield, satisfy four goals at once, and make the dominant power fight on terms it...
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