Asymmetric Wars: Russia's Campaign of Conquest in Ukraine versus the US-Israel Coalition Against Iran

Book DiscriptionAsymmetric Wars: Russia's Campaign of Conquest in Ukraine versus the US-Israel Coalition Campaign Against Iran By Dr Naim Tahir BaigThis book offers the first sustained, side-by-side comparison of two defining armed conflicts of the mid-2020s: Russia's multi-year war of territorial conquest against Ukraine and the United States-Israel coalition campaign of precision strikes and regime-degradation operations against Iran. One conflict is a war fought to seize and hold ground; the other is a bounded campaign fought to destroy capability and constrain a regime's freedom of action without occupation. Rather than treating these war-types as incommensurable, the study uses their differences as the central analytical instrument.Organized around four primary axes of asymmetry-war aim, duration, belligerent count, and nuclear posture-and a fifth cross-cutting variable of regime type, the book systematically examines operational art, coalition management, economic and energy warfare, nuclear dynamics, international law and legitimacy, and provisional outcomes. Israel is treated throughout not as an auxiliary but as a full co-belligerent whose decisions shaped timing, targeting, and termination as decisively as those of the United States. Every empirical claim is anchored to a uniform cutoff of August 2026, drawing on primary documents, verification reports, government statements, and the accumulated open-source record while remaining transparent about asymmetries in source maturity between the two cases.Written for scholars, analysts, and policymakers in security studies, comparative politics, and international affairs, this is a disciplined two-case study that holds multiple variables in simultaneous view. It demonstrates how differing war aims and coalition structures generate systematically different logics of escalation, alliance management, and termination-and why those differences matter for deterrence, coalition-building, and conflict prevention in the years ahead.