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Japan’s Counterstrike Planning and Lessons From the Third Gulf War

What are planners in Tokyo taking away from the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran? What are the limits of comparisons?

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Ankit Panda
Mar 21, 2026
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Today’s Nukesletter is a dispatch from Japan as I wait at the airport to head home after a week of great meetings. I was here for a very interesting workshop (that I may say more on later), various catch-ups, and spoke at a roundtable at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. Alas, I was a few days too early to catch the peak sakura bloom.

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