“You have defined victory so nebulously here that this scenario would fit that definition: SOF eliminate remaining leadership, collapse formal IRGC command elements, seize/destroy 90% of CBRN materials and weaponry,” yet if even a fraction of Iran’s population remains resistant and capable of lobbing missiles at neighbors, or deploying CBRN materials, or conducting small cell attacks within the West for the next 50 years, we would have achieved “Victory” by your standard. This is precisely the same kind of nebulous language that was used by Commanders to describe their success with COIN. How did COIN work out? We achieved it, no doubt, did it give us victory in Iraq and Afghanistan?”