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International Relations Researches

Hybrid Warfare: The US Approach to the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Hadi Ebrahimikiapei
Abstract
The United States has been the most important international player for Iran for the past half century. Four decades after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, this country has always sought to change its relations with Iran. The United States' longing for the loss of its closest ally in the Middle East led to a massive effort to restore pre-revolutionary conditions. To return to the pre-revolutionary conditions, this country has taken different approaches to Iran since the beginning of the victory of the revolution.
According to many military analysts and strategists, the country's failure to approach a tough war approach such as the attack on Tabas, the Iraq war, the USS Vince attack on an Iranian airliner, and the threat of a military strike or soft war approach such as propaganda, war. Psychology led him to pursue a new approach to Iran in the late fourth and early fifth decades. An approach that is referred to in political and military circles as hybrid warfare. The present study, by enumerating the indicators of this type of war, examines the components of the US combined war against Iran. The findings of the study confirm that most of the components of the combined war have clear examples in the behavior of this country in the face of Iran in the late fourth decade and early fifth decade
Keywords
Strategy
Tactics
Combined Warfare
Fifth Decade
Iran
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