Conventional thinking mistakes the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for a conventional military or grassroots insurgency.

This strategic assessment reveals it for what it truly is: a hermetic ruling caste, structurally fused to the Iranian state’s very survival
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Strategic Assessment: The Systemic Deconstruction of the Iranian State Apparatus - Moshe Eshel

I. The Nature of the Adversary: A Ruling Caste, Not an Insurgency The fundamental analytical error in assessing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is

Moshe Eshel