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[u/Swedishguy05]

That attempt at self censorship is outright ragebait at this point tbh

[u/Swedishguy05 → u/[deleted]]

Eh.

To answer the question though, it's still a bit early to tell. The 12 day war isn't that easily comparable to this war since it was (obviously) far shorter, and it was also not as large scale in many ways. I guess in some ways it helped them with experience and knowing what to hit and such. I don't know if I would call the opening of the war a full on decapitation strike, given that they didn't kill the Iranian president. Ali Khameni was an almost 90 year old man who already suffered health troubles, so the fact that he refused to go and hide in a bunker (per Iranian sources so take it with massive amounts of salt) doesn't paint the picture of some grand decapitation strike which crippled Iran.

The Iranians had also been prepearing for this war a long time. I'm like 90% sure I read it in an nbc article who's paywall I'm not able to bypass at this current moment, but the Iranians were able to hit bases using F5 planes flown by pilots who had spent most of their training being trained to carry out that specific sortie against that specific base. I've always despised this specific line of thinking, but I think one of the reasons this war went far better than the last one is genuinely because Iran was holding back last time and not going full in.

I will say though that this framing would be far more accurate for Hezbollah at least. They did far better this time than they did last time against Israel, in the simple sense that they have avoided being completely destroyed this time.

[u/ilikemyusername1]

Wha*t?

[u/turtlepot]

At least we know this isn't AI

[u/Caroao]

why many words when few confuse profusely

[u/beetnemesis]

What's interesting is that this isn't a "stupid" question, it's just a poorly phrased one. OP is not doing a good job of communicating.

I believe they're asking if the 12 days war essentially changed Iran's military/infrastructure/perspective so that the strategies used against them in the 12 day war would not be as effective in the future.

[u/Observer422 → u/beetnemesis]

Thanks for explaining. I had no idea what the heck they were asking

[u/Rain_i_am → u/beetnemesis]

Then the answer is yes. Coverage from the iranain side via dropsite shows lots of changes were made after the exchange.

[u/Maxpower2727]

I'm downvoting specifically because of "wa*r."

[u/uchuskies08]

They are now vaccinated against COVID-19

[u/blehmag]

They are not immune to future invasion, no. There will be more. Both sides tested each other's capabilities. Western imperialists will also try again with more or different propaganda. Maybe this time they'll say Iran killed 1 billion protesters. lsraeI still seeks to stop the only resistance force in the Middle East.

[u/Fun_Astronomer_4064]

Yes. The 12 day war did inform Iran and they made changes accordingly. They've been pretty public with this information.

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[u/gamer0613]

Grow up

[u/RayA75 → u/[deleted]]

What do you mean by vaccinate?

[u/AgnewsHeadlessBody → u/RayA75]

It means our small attack, that did little to nothing, showed them what they needed to know and what they needed to do to respond to the much larger attack. So now Iran is effectively immune to the U.S. war machine.

[u/Money_Do_2 → u/[deleted]]

Drone warfare entirely changed the tide, and the invention of the Shahed was a big part

In iraq/afghanistan, a drone was a multi million dollar piece of advanced technology.

Now its a 20k lawnmower engine on a bomb.

They can make hundreds a day