War is a great engine of change, sweeping aside assumptions, toppling established power relationships, driving new forces into play, rearranging long-held theories and challenging orthodoxies. That happened in six years of fighting in World War II, in the seven days of the 1967 Middle East War, and, we are discovering in recent days, in five weeks of upheaval in Iran.
With a ceasefire in the Iran war and with the parties to the fragile agreement already in disagreement about its sweep and its meaning, some clarity about the conflict, and about the new global order it may have created, nonetheless is setting in.
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