Reply To: The open miracles of the Iranian bombardment and the war in Gaza

I would like to share this quote from an Axios story about the Iranian missile attack:
“We think it will be very hard to replicate the huge success we had on Saturday with defeating the attack if Iran launches hundreds of missiles and drones again — and the Israelis know it,” another U.S. official said.

In other words, it is NOT teva to be that successful. 90% coverage is orders of magnitude harder than 75% coverage, 99% coverage is orders of magnitude harder than 90% coverage. The unnamed US official is saying “lav bechol yoma israchish nisa”.

The attack was incredibly large. It was designed with slower uav’s up front to exhaust the defenses, followed by cruise and ballistic missiles after that to get through the gaps . It was a well-thought-out strategy that should have worked. It is nissim that it didn’t.

A paper called “A New Methodology for Assessing Multilayer Missile Defense Options”, published by Rand Corporation, is easily accessible via Google. It talks about how difficult it is to achieve even a 90% coverage rate for missile attacks.

In short, a huge miracle that we would be fools to ignore. Such is the zechus of Torah.