{"id":213484,"date":"2026-05-08T13:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=213484"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:28:14","slug":"what-a-war-game-already-told-us-about-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2026\/05\/08\/what-a-war-game-already-told-us-about-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"What A War Game Already Told Us About Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Abbott, Political Science professor, has published a new analysis in Just Security examining Iran&#8217;s asymmetric response to the current US military campaign. Abbott argues that Iran&#8217;s tactics (including swarm attacks, proxy escalation, and Strait of Hormuz pressure) were predicted in detail by a 2002 US military war game. The Pentagon ignored the lessons then. It is paying for that now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Ih4Dzb\">\n<div class=\"q4tvle JqSWld yqQS1\" role=\"textbox\" aria-label=\"More details: Add details about your site update, calendar event, or news announcement.\">The piece, titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/137609\/war-game-iran\/\">What A War Game Already Told Us About Iran<\/a>,&#8221; appears in Just Security, a leading forum on law, rights, and security policy based at NYU School of Law. Abbott is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Law and a regular commentator on Asian Politics and International Affairs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Abbott, Political Science professor, has published a new analysis in Just Security examining Iran&#8217;s asymmetric response to the current US military campaign. Abbott argues that Iran&#8217;s tactics (including swarm attacks, proxy escalation, and Strait of Hormuz pressure) were predicted in detail by a 2002 US military war game. The Pentagon ignored the lessons then. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":213486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-7_homepage-news-and-events","category-138_political-science-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213530,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213484\/revisions\/213530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}