Part 1: Why America Sucks At This

In the future, kids will ask what a fighter jet is, and we'll say ‘a drone with a person inside it’ and they’ll think we’re insane. This is the paradigm shift Iran more than anyone has ushered in. Iran pioneered the Shahed drone that Russia copied as the Geran and ‘America’ as the shitty LUCAS. Iran’s missile program is the most innovative in that they do the most on a shoestring. Trump crows about destroying their Air Force, but the IRGC doesn’t have an Air Force. They have an Aerospace Force, which is a different paradigm entirely.

Then our future kids will also ask, ‘wait, you just parked those human drones in the open?’ and ‘you parked them on the ocean?’ and think we’re even more senile. Airbases and aircraft carriers are too exposed for the modern era. Palestine and Iran have taken war literally underground and either tied or won against the greatest empire (hitherto) around. It’s a brave new world and all the ‘American’ bases are gone. And where’s Iran? Still in Iran. As a local said about Isfahan mountain (source: Internet) “This mountain, we see it get bombed almost every night, we see the smoke rise. Yet when we wake up in the morning, it’s from these very same mountains that we see missiles rising into the sky.”

As Sun Tzu said, covering what’s really a return to an ancient paradigm, “To excel at defense means hiding oneself away in the deepest recesses of the earth. To excel at offense means striking from the highest reaches of the heavens.” I repeat this a lot because it’s repeating, we’re in the age of tunnel defense and missile war.

Iran’s Missile Program

After the Islamic Revolution Iran had a few F-4s and F-14s, which ‘America’ was not going to upgrade for them anymore. As Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani said in via the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, “Over the past three decades, Iran has faced limitations in using up-to-date fighter jets due to sanctions, and for this reason, it has focused on strengthening its missile and drone capabilities.” Iran also got hammered by Iraq’s missile program, which made this a necessity.

Iran’s missile program, however, was initially a joint venture with ‘Israel’. Iran under the Shah paid ‘Israel’ $280 million for a ‘Project Flower’ which bore no fruit at all. After the Islamic Revolution, ‘Israel’ took the documents (which would have built obsolete technology anyways) and bounced, though the check didn’t. Iran paid ‘Israel’ in oil for spoilt fruit.

As Professor Mohammad Marandi said, “Project Flower was a useless scrap of paper. This was the crushing reality born from the old regime’s dependency, especially on the Israeli regime. There were no missiles to fire back. The lesson of Project Flower was seared into Iran’s national consciousness. True security cannot be imported. It cannot be contingent on another entity’s politics or permissions.” This last bit is the watchword of Iran’s military in general. If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Iran also got a baptism of fire during the Iraq/Iran War when Iraq—armed by both Eastern and Western Blocs (ie, the Soviets and Americans)—bombarded them relentlessly. As the IRGC said, “Bitch, we on fire! Fire back!” Of course they didn’t say that, they said (via Marandi, ibid),

“IRGC commanders had proposed that the issue of missile bombardment must be responded to at the same level at which the Ba’athist regime was operating. But there was no system, no infrastructure, not even a single suitable rocket. A decision was made. The mission was to build a missile unit from absolute zero. They chose a man for the almost impossible task. A young artillery commander named Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam.”

Under the now martyred Mohaddam and the also martyred successor Amirali Hajizadeh Iran’s rocket science advanced dramatically. I’m skipping ahead a billion years and a lot of blood, but Iran’s missile program is now the best in the world for what it’s designed to do. Defend Iran. Iran does not have missiles that can reach ‘America’ because it does not want to, same reason it doesn’t have nukes. Both weapons are fatwa locked. But it does have missiles that can hit the face of a radar across the Gulf and exact buildings as far as ‘Israel’, or Cyprus if it comes to it. Iran can defend itself now, and in doing so, help liberate the entire region from occupation.

As the Martyr Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh said (pictured next to Moghaddam I think at the far right),

If we were to follow the path that the world has taken, for example, the world—West and East—has mainly gone in search of aircraft. It went after the aircraft for an offensive weapon. If we were to follow the path the world has taken—now the world has reached, for example, 5th generation aircraft–if we wanted to go down this same path we probably would have been struggling in the 3rd generation to move forward. That means we were behind them in everything we did. We were 50 years apart. But instead of choosing a route that would actually lead us behind the enemy and not reach them at all, we chose the path that we now face the enemy head on. I mean it’s true that we’ve seen threats over the year [but] at least in the last decade we have moved goal-oriented. The means we were looking for issues, we were looking for weapons, we were looking for possibilities that would allow us to actually achieve success from a point that would render all of the enemy’s capabilities ineffective.

That about sums up the path Iran took, and you can see the destination now. ‘America’s’ expensive aircraft are burning and they only way they were able to stop Iran’s missiles was by running into them. This has been obvious from the beginning and the IRGC spokesman never led you wrong, but if you must get your news from imperial sources, they are doing what they usually do, reporting the truth after the propaganda work of the lies has been done.

The Whitewashington Post ‘reports’ that,

Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air defense equipment, according to a Washington Post analysis of satellite imagery.

What imagery? “The Post reviewed more than 100 high-resolution Iranian-released satellite images… No Iranian imagery was found to have been manipulated.” As I said, might as well trust the Iranian sources in the first place, and/or their Sri Lankan Copy-Paste Brigade of one.

The Iranian strikes were precise and surgical on the cancer that is America occupation. As some swamp creature told the Post, “The Iranian attacks were precise. There are no random craters indicating misses.” 

And as the New York War Crimes now ‘reports’ (they’re just funneling whatever the government tells them, including feelings),

Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, which could threaten American warships and oil tankers transiting the narrow waterway.

The NYCrimes goes onto make up some percentages of missiles and missile launchers destroyed (source: trust me bro). The ‘intelligence’ sources the NYCrimes is stovepiping are duplicitious and dumb, and because they refuse to be actual reporters and just listen to Iran, these ‘journalists’ stay dumb. As an IRGC spokesperson said during the war (via Thomas Keith), “Most of the missiles currently being fired were produced over a decade ago.” Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Arachchi directly responded to these jumping, meaningless percentages (dividing what they know little about by what they know zero) by saying, “Also the CIA is wrong. Our missile inventory and launcher capacity are not at 75% compared to Feb 29. The correct figure is 120%. As for our readiness to defend our people: 1,000%.”

Iran’s Tunnel Cities

The reason Iran’s missiles cannot be destroyed (except by running into them) is the same reason Hamas could not be destroyed. Because they’re underground. And while Hamas was fighting from under a concentration camp, Iran is fighting from mountains in a nation state it controls. Iran does not have tunnels but tunnel cities and the martyr commander Hajizadeh said “If we unveil one missile city per week, it will take at least two years to show them all.” That’s 104 if you’re counting. And these are cities, complete with rocket metros, multiple entries, and these are not merely underground, they’re under mountains.

These things cannot be bombed, they cannot even be nuked, they simply cannot be stopped. Even Iran’s boats are in tunnels, this is not a sinkable fleet either.

While the third dimension of air was a paradigm shift in war, the third dimension below the ground is a shift also. There were tunnel battles in World War I, but this is an exponential leap in sophistication. What this does for self-defensive nations is level the playing field, by literally going underneath it.

So after nearly a century of unchecked air White supremacy, things are returning to the historical mean. For most of history the defender had an advantage, especially in defending what Sun Tzu called ‘walled cities’. Master Sun said besieging walled cities was shitty, especially if it gets drawn out. He said,

Once you’ve committed to a campaign, you should know that, if the victory is long in coming, both your soldiers and their weapons will lose their edge. Should you lay siege to a walled city, you may cripple your troop strength. Therefore, if those in power are not fully aware of the harm that may come from using troops, then they can never truly understand the advantages to be gained from deploying troops.

This is precisely what happened to ‘America’ because the paradigm shift they benefited from—aeriel bombing—is done. That cheatcode past the usual rules of war is done and walled cities (ie, tunnels) are back with a vengeance now. In the constant battle of sword vs. shield, the shield has caught up, and the sword has become automated. ‘America’s’ command of 1900s technology (specifically air power) let them exterminate people without air defenses but it’s the 2000s now, and there’s a new tech stack in town. Even poor, non-state actors like Hamas in Palestine and Ansarallah in Yemen have figured out how to build walled cities underground. And so war returns to the mean, which is that attacking walled cities is (literally) hard.

The State Of The Art (Of War)

This is the paradigm shift. The aircraft/carrier age is over and the missile/tunnel era has begun. ‘America’ has taken a fighter jet to a missile fight and an open-air base to a tunnel war. They are packing light and not getting far. Meanwhile Iran has known themselves, known the enemy, and—though they actually follow an Islamic Art of War—followed Sun Tzu to his logical conclusion. Command the heights, command the depths, and win the war.

Master Sun summed up the Art of War, saying,

The art of war consists of:

1. measurements;
2. estimates;
3. calculations;
4. weighing;
5. victory.

The terrain leads to measurements;
The measurements lead to estimates;
The estimates lead to calculations;
The calculations lead to weighing the options;
The weighing leads to victory.

In this way, Iran measured the terrain and saw that A) they had the high ground behind mountains and B) all the Empire's bases up to 'Israel' were in firing range. They estimated the range of missiles they'd need, the amount of air defense missiles the enemy had, and built and planned accordingly. Khamenei the Elder actually issued a fatwa limiting the range of missiles to what they'd need and constantly said (via Laith Marouf), ‘Go back. Give me more accuracy. What if there is an innocent person that's going to die?’ As you can see, estimates lead to calculations.

Iran calculated that they’d be forever behind in jets and that, while seemingly impossible, it was less impossible to do rocket science. They weighed the options and made the paradigmic leap from manned to unmanned warfare. Now ‘America’ is technologically behind, flying horses into World War III, while Iran has taken artillery to the next level and blows them up on a screen. It’s like Nokia vs. the smartphones. There was a brief moment where smartphones existed and Nokia still had top market share, and we’re in that brief moment militarily now. If you don’t believe me, wait for the White rags to admit it in a few months. Iran has won victory in this war, proved itself a great power, and is pound-for-pound the greatest modern innovator in war. I’M WRITING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE IT’S A SHIFT. IRAN HAS DELIVERED A PARADIGM SHIFT IN WAR.