The surprise attack that Israel launched against Iran in the early hours of June 13 initiated one of history’s most ingenious, complex, and successful campaigns. A tiny country, its population barely a tenth of Iran’s, projected a multidimensional preemptive strike with pinpoint accuracy over distances up to 1,200 miles without losing a single airplane or pilot. The world has not seen a similar feat of arms since 1967, when Israel, closely supported by the United States, defeated a host of Soviet-supplied Arab armies in the Six-Day War. The consequences for the Middle East, American interests, and the world will be no less significant.
In the first few hours of the attacks, Israel incapacitated a regime dedicated to its destruction. The Mossad intelligence agency and commando forces,
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