interesting summary, my only point is about the Iran-Iraq war, going for 8 years, is yes you can do this, if you are next door to each other, this one is air and missile mostly, and probably special forces. If Israel has indeed destroyed a big % of Iran air force, and BM , then its hard to see how Iran would be able to make war, even if it was at war. if at the same time, any Iranian leader made a speech about killing jews or something, and was then zapped by an Israeli F16, then continuing the war is going to be very painful. At this point, and we await Iranian counter attack, the war could already be over, done some shouting.