An important War Essay:

Israel has a military strategy called the Dahiya Doctrine. Named after the Dahiya district in Beirut that Israel destroyed in its 2006 invasion of Lebanon.

This ideology calls for the use of overwhelming, disproportionate force and the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure to break the will of an adversary’s population.

This isn’t a theory. It’s Israeli military policy explicitly stated, defended, and repeatedly executed in Gaza with genocidal lethality. And now, we are watching its most dangerous version yet: applied to a powerful sovereign state, Iran.

The Dahiya Doctrine logic tells us that Israel will not limit its strikes to military installations. It will continue to target critical infrastructure, including electricity grids, oil facilities, water systems, and communications networks, not just to disable Iran’s military but to make ordinary life unbearable and pressure the population and political elite alike.

These are not military objectives. They are social engineering through airstrikes, designed to collapse not just Iran’s defences but its society.

This is a war on a nation’s viability.

This whole thing was never about nuclear deterrence. It’s always been about proving that any nation defying Israeli or American regional dominance will face the same fate as Dahiya, Gaza, Tripoli, or Damascus.

The choice now before America is not complicated: will it amplify the Dahiya Doctrine into a war with Iran, or finally admit that this doctrine risks the future of West Asia and perhaps the entire world?

I have a feeling they’re willing to risk everyone and everything.