Missiles Over Jerusalem: What Tehran’s Gamble Reveals About the Post-American World
In Book I of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides observed that nations act not from ideology alone but from a triad of motivating forces — fear, honor, and interest — and that when a weaker power probes a stronger one, it is rarely suicidal. It is, more often, a calculated test of whether deterrence still holds.
