The end of the Jewish occupation of the West may be rapidly approaching – Operation Epic Fail

 Sun 9:41 am +00:00, 15 Mar 2026  3

posted by pete fairhurst 2

Source: https://www.unz.com/article/operation-epic-fail/

Given their bellicose nature and what is at stake, you would think that Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the Pentagon busybodies would heed Machiavelli’s advice that “A prince should have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline.” But the 2026 Iran War shows that they are complete amateurs in the art of war.

With the notable exception of special forces, US doctrine is all about blunt force. If it’s not working, throw more stuff at it. The US has no idea of how to fight a peer or near peer enemy. But historically, most war has been between adversaries of relative strength. And the great battles which we study were either close calls decided by key factors or were upsets. Nobody studies battles or wars that were fly swattings because not only are they boring, there is nothing useful to learn. Even if you are overwhelmingly stronger, the upsets merit study so that you can avoid being surprised like the losers were.

Any Dissident Rightist who reads history or plays strategy games would have seen several signs that the 2026 Iran War was not going to be a cake walk, if it was even winnable at all. None of this requires special knowledge, fancy credentials, glowing résumés, or classified information. Much of the problem stems from the fact that America’s “leadership” is uncultured. They know more factual nitty gritty details but get lost in them. We, on the other hand, may not know all the trees, but we see the forest.

If Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Iran War was lost in the corridors of the Pentagon.

That “amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics” is attributed to General Bradley. Franco’s logistical mastery in the Spanish Civil War gave the Nationalists a decisive edge against the disorganized Communist-Republican rabble, even though they had more men and industry. You don’t really need to be all that professional to have realized that the strategic oil reserves should have been replenished before the war started, even if that meant delaying it, unless one was certain it would be over within four days. But everything indicated it would not be over quickly. The reserves could probably last three months to counteract the straits of Hormuz being closed, but the war could last longer.

The only way the straits wouldn’t have been imperiled was if there was regime change from within, but that cowardly bit of optimism merits an entire separate article.

Greg Conte observed the similarity between Trump and Crassus: both were arrogant real estate moguls. Hoping to copy the conquests of other men, they advanced against Persia without waiting for proper support. They both ended up hoping that the Persians would run out of munitions, arrows at the battle of Carrhae, and cheap drones in the current war.

This leads into another perennial theme. The best RTS games, most notably Warcraft 3 and Starcraft, have very different factions with unique strengths, weaknesses, and units. Some factions tend to do better against others, but the Wunderwaffen of one faction often have a cheap counter among the other factions, like pikes beating knights. In real life, the squeals of flaming pigs countered war elephants, while at Zama, Scipio Africanus terrified Hannibal’s elephants with more humane methods like loud noises and javelins while leaving gaps in his line for the elephants to pass through. The lesson here is that one needs a diverse array of weapons instead of relying on one-hit wonders, and if your enemy knows what you are relying on, he can probably counter it, and maybe even cheaply.

Iran knew that ZOG would rely on expensive and slow to produce standoff munitions, aircraft carriers, radars, and interceptors. So they spammed cheap drones and ballistic missiles. What few interceptors are left have been diverted towards protecting Israel, leaving the Gulf meme statelets defenseless. And after losing about half of its eight THAAD radars, the US is redeploying some or all from PACOM. But if Iran could take out the CENTCOM THAADs while they were supporting each other, its likely they will be able to take out these new ones while they are being set up. Again, ZOG doesn’t know anything other than to use more force rather than to use force intelligently.

Turning from defense to offense, the US expended 10 to 20% of its Tomahawk cruise missiles within the first four days, which was equal to about eight years of production as described by Ron Unz. And yet this has not done much damage due to the decentralized deployment of Iranian forces in a rugged country. They even tricked the US into shooting Tomahawks and other munitions at fake inflatable targets. This is not the first time fake forces have been used to confuse an enemy. In WWII, the Allies used wood and rubber tanks and landing craft combined with fake communications to convince the Axis that Normandy was a diversion from the main invasion, thereby slowing their response until it was too late. The excessive use of blunt force with limited results has led Unz to characterize the Iran War as “something approaching involuntary unilateral disarmament.”

The Pentagon busybodies should have been closely studying Ukraine, which clearly indicated that jets and tanks have become deprecated in favor of drones, missiles, and timeless infantry. But they failed to update their doctrine or weapons accordingly. Perhaps they can’t because they know their decaying empire could never motivate hundreds of thousands of men to copy Ukraine’s infantry tactics. The best they did was to copy Iran’s one-way Shahed drone with the LUCAS drone. Most importantly, Ukraine should have shown that the defender has a substantial advantage against an attacking force.

None of this should have been surprising. While I was playing the newly released Warcraft 3 in 2002, the war game Millenium Challenge 2002 also took place. Retired Marine General Paul Van Riper used asymmetric tactics to quickly flog the US side as Iran, including sinking an aircraft carrier. He was then told that he could not use asymmetrical tactics as a rational self-interested actor would. Saying the exercise had become propaganda, he walked out. While in that exercise Iran launched a surprise attack instead of ZOG, Iran’s asymmetric warfare has evolved since then. It’s sad that I took Warcraft 3 more seriously than the Pentagon took their war gaming.

In addition to not heeding history or games, the White House doesn’t seem to listen to their own words. Hegseth has said that personnel is policy and has promulgated the “1990 test” which states any change since 1990 should be scrutinized for whether it was due to combat evolving versus a softening of standards. These two things imply that there has been a steady decline since 1990. And thirty-five years of decline cannot be undone in a single year, even with cool edits. It would take at least four uninterrupted years to get rid of the absolutely worst people and policies, and probably eight to substantially return to first-world standards. All the current brass were active participants for the entirety of their careers in the decline.

Furthermore, the current system selects for people who are dumb and energetic, which is exactly the type of people General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord warned against. Everyone who is smart gets out, with only Kool-Aid drinking careerists remaining. The brass are good at making frantic busy work for themselves and others, more than what is necessary even in a global empire. Generals should be smart but lazy so they can step back, look at the big picture, not panic, and delegate. Smart and energetic people can serve as their staff. But dumb busybodies not only demoralize the people beneath them, they also pour their energy into making bad decisions. They are very good at acronyms and nitty gritty details, but not at anything holistic. Thus, the US military excels at power point presentations and deprecated Cold War tactics.

In On War, Von Clausewitz describes war in the abstract, idealized state as being frictionless, that is, there are none of the real-life details that prevent a state from bringing all of its forces to bear as rapidly as possible. This was a foreshadowing of blitzkrieg and total war. NATO took this tendency even further and only knows war as applying more force until it gets what it wants, rather than using force more creatively or efficiently. This makes it unfit for a war of attrition, which is why Iran spent years planning for exactly that.

Von Clausewitz also described how tactical reserves make sense in a battle but not strategic reserves in a war or campaign. If you don’t use your entire force, it is inefficient and draws further away from abstract war. Tactical reserves might exploit a breakthrough, respond to a disaster, relieve tired troops, provide flexibility, etc. In contrast, one essentially pays strategic reserves to stand around and look pretty unless they are deterring a very specific threat. But the expansive battlefields and lightning speed of modern warfare blurs the strategic and tactical. Thus, in its “involuntary unilateral disarmament” ZOG resembles a runner who burned himself out in the first mile of a 3.1-mile race, or a player in an RTS who “zerg rushes” the enemy base and fails because the other side anticipated it and turtled appropriately. Meanwhile, Iran shot its older missiles and drones first, has not used its easternmost launchers which remain unmolested, its proxy Hezbollah has only partially committed itself, and the Houthi pirates not at all. After the first nerve wracking week, Iran is in a much stronger position due to its untapped reserves.

Echoing Bormann or perhaps a drunk Richard Spencer, Stephen Miller stated in January 2026 that:

We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in the real world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.

He’s completely correct, but the White House should have internalized that it cuts both ways. Geopolitics is “player versus player” not “player versus environment.” Adversaries tend to do what they want, not what you want, including asymmetric wars of attrition. Now, the US is headed towards repeating Russia’s upset defeat by Japan in 1905, which shocked the world that a new player emerged to defeat a Western power.

If Iran is winning, they have no reason to stop until their demands are satisfied in accordance with their rational self-interest. Thus it is likely that Iran will be able to force the US out of the region and have its sanctions removed at the minimum. As Machiavelli observed “Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” That’s one of the iron laws which have existed since the beginning of time.

The only way this could not come to pass is if the US launches a ground invasion or uses atomic weaponry. At that point, it’s likely that either the cabinet would invoke the Twenty Fifth Amendment to depose Trump, or Congress would finally exercise its Article 1 legislative powers to declare (and by extension halt) war, even if it is labelled as a “special military operation.” If the US resorts to atomic weapons in its SMO, that opens the door to Russia using atomic weapons in their SMO, or the Chinese in conquering Taiwan, which risks a global nuclear exchange. Thus the cabinet and/or Congress would almost certainly act, even if only to save their own skin or to opportunistically advance their own petty careers.

Russia losing to Japan contributed to the Russian Revolution. While I doubt anything as dramatic is likely in the US, Iran humbling ZOG will have profound political implications at home. And because ZOG is as incompetent at politics as it is at war, we will be able to use it to our advantage. The end of the Jewish occupation of the West may be rapidly approaching.