CROSSPOST: MICHAEL SELLERS: How the CIA & Israel Pulled Off the Successful Opening Leadership Strike on Iran
This is the best short thing I have read not about the legality, morality, or strategic wisdom of the Trump-Netanyahu war on the Islamic Republic of Iran, but about how the opening strike happened to work, and work so well; and what that tells us about the form being taken by the human social practice of war as we move into the attention info-bio tech age. The operation’s “pivot” was intelligence that Islamic Republic leadership was converging on Saturday morning. This “everyone’s in the room” gave the opportunity for a decapitation strike, tailored—standoff weapons, compound‑level targeting, and simultaneous hits on several Tehran locations—to preserve surprise until the moment of weapons impact. The central puzzle: the meeting was not in a bunker, but at an unhardened urban site. Why?
<https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/cp/189615461> <https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/how-the-cia-and-israel-pulled-off>
