Why Iran’s defensive strategy might make a ceasefire difficult

Joe InwoodWorld news correspondent For more than a month, the US and Israel launched co-ordinated attacks on Iran Usually, the killing of the entire political and military leadership of a country would lead to chaos, maybe even collapse. In Iran, this has not happened. That may be due to their adoption of what’s known as a decentralised mosaic defence strategy, effectively devolving operational power to local commanders. They would have a list of objectives and be empowered to operate independen