Jim de Bree | Who Will Win the Iran War? |
The old axiom is that it is easier to get into a war than to end it will likely prove true with the American-Israeli endeavors in Iran. Usually there are no winners in modern warfare, rather it is the party who lost the least who claims victory.
However, there already is one apparent clear winner from these hostilities — China.
China has received multifaceted windfalls from the U.S. attacks on Iran, which include potentially significant military, economic and political benefits.
Militarily, the Chinese have received several benefits. The first is insight into how modern American forces wage battle. The U.S. government has spent untold fortunes on new weapons that deploy the latest technology, but until now, adversaries lacked precise knowledge about those weapons’ deployment, efficacy and effective countermeasures.
It is reported that China supplied Iran with its YLC-8B data system, which can be used for many tasks, including tracking American stealth aircraft and conducting electronic surveillance to identify measures undertaken by Israel’s Mossad. The war has allowed China to beta test their data systems in combat conditions without directly engaging in combat.
If the Chinese military wants to anticipate how........