For decades, the United States and Israel have operated on the assumption that a network can be destroyed by severing its center — yet the axis of resistance Iran has cultivated across the Middle East has quietly outgrown that logic. What was once a hub-and-spoke arrangement dependent on Tehran's direction has matured into a distributed, self-sustaining ecosystem of knowledge, supply chains, and autonomous capability. The spring 2025 strikes that officials declared decisive have been answered not with collapse but with reconstitution, forcing a reckoning with a deeper truth: military force app
Iran's Axis of Resistance Adapts to Survive U.S.-Israeli Campaign
Thousands killed in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria; ongoing attacks on civilian infrastructure in Gulf states and Red Sea shipping lanes; displacement from Israeli operations in southern Lebanon.