Author: Deepak Kumar

By Deepak Kumar Wars are usually judged by who wins and who loses on the battlefield. The Iran War is not. The conflict surrounding Iran is producing a different kind of outcome. Its most significant effects are not confined to the countries fighting it. They are moving outward across markets, infrastructure and societies, reaching states that neither shape the conflict nor can control it. The result is a war in which the heaviest economic consequences are being absorbed by those with the least influence over how it ends. That is not an unintended side effect. It reflects how modern conflict now…