preemptive attack

Since the beginning of the war and the crisis in Syria, the Zionist entity has regularly and continuously attacked sites in the territory of this country. These attacks mainly targeted military centers and bases, especially weapons and ammunition depots, and sometimes led to the death and wounding of members of the Syrian army, as well as elements of the Revolutionary Guards and the Lebanese Hezbollah. The pretext of the usurping entity authorities for these attacks - which are considered a clear violation of the unity and official sovereignty of Damascus - is the presence of Iran and the resistance in Syria, which it considers a threat to its security, and for this reason, in addition to political and diplomatic efforts, they are trying to exert pressure on the Syrian government as well as Iran through military attacks. Given the lack of strategic depth, Israel has always adhered to theories such as deterrence through military superiority, preemptive attacks, and finally aggressive neo-realism to ensure its security. In this article, while studying a theoretical concept related to the motives and objectives of the Israeli attacks on Syrian territory, we will discuss the causes of these attacks as well as the prospects for this conflict.

U.S. military invasion of Iraq, which was driven by the presumption of existence of weapons of mass destruction at the hands of Saddam, the undisputed leader of one of the eldest cradles of world civilizations, brought about numerous implications. U.S. performance demonstrated that preemptive attack doctrine had no operational justification due to lack of access to all needed information, a fact which was evidenced by U.S. failure to find weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, with its refusal to obtain UN permission for attacking Iraq, the United States questioned the legal principles upon which the United Nations was formed, thus undermining the international prestige of the institution. U.S. practice reveals intellectual weakness of the preemptive attack doctrine on the one hand, and displays U.S. inattention to legal and moral principles enshrined in the UN charter on the other.