Excellent read!-----The Two Wars for Iran: The War in a Historical Context

Military victories are decided on the battlefield—but in modern America, they are too often lost in the politics that follow. - Victor Davis Hanson

• The rare quick and total victory over an enemy at little cost often ensures unquestioned political support in modern consensual societies.
• In most cases, however, especially in the Western world, ongoing military success or failure is adjudicated through the lens of politics—in a way sometimes at odds with the reality of the battlefield...

There will follow a number of geostrategic ripples from even a surviving but disarmed and impoverished theocracy: 

• radical cuts in arms and money to its terrorist proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis;
• China and Russia will have lost a client and its baleful influence in the Middle East. 
• The diminution of Iran will instead likely empower the pro-Western Gulf monarchies and democratic Israel. 
• For years to come, the threat of nuclear ballistic missiles hitting Europe or eventually the U.S. will be diminished...

Despite the frenzy, the military side of the operation has gone particularly well, often conducted in brilliant fashion. 

• But the hysterical politics of the war have been dangerous to the degree that it now threatens the very mission itself.

Remember: all that can be clearly won through battle can be lost through politics—as post-Vietnam America should know all too well.