View: What a month of war has taught us in the Gulf

View: What a month of war has taught us in the Gulf

Faisal’s viewIt has been a month since Operation Epic Fury was launched, and while it remains uncertain how it will end, what is crystal clear is the new reality it has exposed about the Gulf, Iran, and the state of warfare today.First, the predominant previous assessment of many pundits that Gulf states’ collective large investments in defense were prestige driven — as opposed to a necessity — has fallen flat on its face. We would have liked to…