The myth of American military invulnerability, and Israel’s by extension, is dying where it began It is ironic that the myth of American military invulnerability, and Israel’s by extension, is dying where it began. Israel’s wars in the 1970s and 80s, or at least the story that has been written and repeated about them, served as a prelude to the 1990 Persian Gulf War, where American and Western air power comprehensively defeated the might of then seemingly formidable Iraqi military, with minimal losses in return. The Second Offset strategy, as it was called in American strategic discourse, had proved thoroughly superior over the ‘best of the rest’. That the Iraqi military was a shadow of itself after the war with Iran it was armed for and goaded into by Western powers became a footnote in that story. The narrative of technological supremacy mattered more than the messy political realities behind it.
Published: March 15, 2026 4:57 am
Source: The Express Tribune — Read original