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Unlike Trump, Iran's regime has been plotting this war for decades
Iran’s regime has spent years making plans to cope without its leadership and built a defence designed to survive and draw the US into a unwinnable ground war, writes world affairs editor Sam KileyWednesday 18 March 2026 14:37 GMT
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Iran’s regime has a system known as the “mosaic defence” which has been implemented for battlefield decision making, counter attacks and state oppression.
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The doctrine of "mosaic defence” has its routes in the cell structures of resistance movements and terrorist organisations going back to World War II.
...each link is an autonomous self regulating and motivating entity.
Local leaders are given the authority, capacity, and above all inviolable orders that they must continue to act.
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“We’ve had two decades to study defeats of the US military to our immediate east and west. We’ve incorporated lessons accordingly,” the foreign minister said on social media on 1 March.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-trump-us-war-irgc-plan-b2940964.html
Iran’s regime has a system known as the “mosaic defence” which has been implemented for battlefield decision making, counter attacks and state oppression.
...
The doctrine of "mosaic defence” has its routes in the cell structures of resistance movements and terrorist organisations going back to World War II.
...each link is an autonomous self regulating and motivating entity.
Local leaders are given the authority, capacity, and above all inviolable orders that they must continue to act.
...
“We’ve had two decades to study defeats of the US military to our immediate east and west. We’ve incorporated lessons accordingly,” the foreign minister said on social media on 1 March.
More
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-trump-us-war-irgc-plan-b2940964.html
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Trump knows more about war than the generals! 
Trump knows more about war than the generals!