General · 19 March 2026
The 40-Year Road To Asymmetric Retaliation: Libya's Playbook, Iran's Strategy
In 1986, America bombed Libya. The target survived. Two years later, 270 people died when Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down over Lockerbie, Scotland. Libya's answer was not a missile back at America. It was civilians on a plane. Cornered regimes don't fight you directly. They find the softest target and hit it where it hurts most. Forty years later, Iran is running that exact playbook. Only the weapons have changed.
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