Time is of the Essence

The week ended on March 13, 2026, interesting news items to look at for the past week are:

Time is of the Essence: "Time is of the essence" is a legal term in contracts meaning that performing obligations by the exact date or time specified is critical. This is even more so when applied to war. The mightiest military prepared for a 4 days mission will fall to a lesser power when the war is drawn out to a war of attrition. My analysis in this week's Blog is to examine the chips on the table for the Zionist/Iranian war with a view to what and when a possible conclusion may result. I will use Profession Jiang’s 4 dimensions of war to present my thesis. (Fig. 1)

(i) Narrative - Narrative is world opinion. On this count the unprovoked attack on Iran with a second decapitation strike using deceptive negotiations as a ploy means the Zionists will stand isolated from third party assistance. Another fatal mistake made by US in her haste for the pre-emptive strike was the bombing of a junior girls’ school with 180 deaths, the majority being school girls aged 7-12. The most convincing explanation was the school compound was selected through AI because the US Secretary of War overrode safeguards of human verification of target validity. There was a reason why Anthropic refused a lucrative contract with the Pentagon on grounds of refusal to allow Claude to be used for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems that can kill people without human input. (Fig. 2).

It is common knowledge the IDF indiscriminate bombing in Gaza was on similar methodology. These war crimes will explode in the face of Zionists elites as antiwar sentiment rose from global economic hardships gradually developing on the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. We have to be aware that Zionists may counteract an adverse narrative by diversion through false flag acts of terrorism. This has happened in numerous occasions before, so be on guard.  

(ii) Political - There has been too many blunders by the Trump Administration and his predecessors. Tariff war on Liberation Day and derivative cost of living crisis, ICE killings of US citizens in dealing with illegal immigrants, Venezuela, Canada and Denmark and of course subjugation of MAGA to Zionists interests. All these have not endeared the Trump Administrations to national and international approvals. (Fig. 3).

Nonetheless, the US Mid Term election is months away and the world simply cannot survive another month if energy products continued with the current blockage. Someone will get thrown under the bus for reasons of war crimes as enunciated in the previous paragraph or impeachable offenses disclosed in the Epstein Files if a reset is deemed necessary. (Fig. 4).

Finger pointing already began at Pete Hegseth and let’s see if Trump would climb on the bus to the off ramp.

(iii)  Economic - The strategic and economic significance of the Strait of Hormuz and Bab-El-Mandeb at the door of Iran and Yemen is well known to all students of Geo-politics. Both are gateways to 20%+ of global flow of Oil and Gas, Fertilizers and Container trades and have repeatedly been warned by Iran and Yemen as potential leverages in Middle East Wars. (Fig. 5).

Yet, it is exactly where the Trump Administration failed to pay attention. (Fig. 6).

It is ironic that US wants to grab control of the energy transit lever as a counterweight to China’s choke hold on rare earth that now manifested in Gulf energy is only allowed to flow to China but not US allies.  Proverb 16:18 “Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. ” (Fig. 7).

 

(iv)  Military - In the 8 years war between Iraq and Iran which began in 1980, Iran realized then she was fighting a proxy war against the Anglo American empire. When US turned on her attack dog Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iran knew she would meet with the same fate eventually. So for over 20 years, Iran;s theocracy has been preparing for a final combat with the sole superpower. To see this preparation in proper context, we first need to earmark some important data points on Iran:

(a) Iran land mass (Fig. 8) -  is about one fifth of the size of the lower 48 states (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) or the combined land area of 31 of US smallest states.

In March 2026, US sent between 4 to 7 B1 & B2  strategic bombers daily from US mainland or a UK airbase to strike Iran. These bombers all require mid air refueling using tankers like the KC135. Payload for these bombers varies from two 30,000 lbs ultra bunker busters to 16 bombs of 5,000 lbs each. Each mission is therefore 8 to 100 bombs dependant upon the mission objectives on a land mass equal to 31 States. Why from US mainland or UK? Well, Iran claims 70% of US Bases in the Middle East has already been destroyed. (Fig. 9).

An important data point is these refueling tankers were all originated from US mainland or Diego Garcia as supply of jet fuel in Europe and Gulf US Bases are under stress.  (Fig. 10)

(b)  Topography of Iran (Fig.11) -  Iran is a mountainous country, difficult to attack but easy to defend.

For over 20 years, key military installations of Iran are constructed as underground bases up to 500 meters deep. This precautionary measure at hind sight proved the forethought and care which the IRGC took in their war plans as bunker buster bombs would only be effective up to 60 meters. (Fig. 12, 13,14, 15 and 16)

show how missiles and drones are stored and operate and have been confirmed by western analysts. Alastair Crooke, ex UK Diplomat and Geo-political commentator described Iran’s 2000 Km coastline are like honeycombs of missiles tunnels and launchers.

As students of Geo-politics, how are we to evaluate a possible outcome of this war using Professor Jiang 4 dimensional analysis. Let’s examine again (i) the June 2025 Trump obliteration of Iranian’s enriched uranium was a hoax against a knowledge of Iran’s underground facility and (ii) the problems concerning logistics and efficacy of long range limited bombing and vulnerability of tanker refueling (Fig. 17),

(iii) the most recent strikes by US and Iran (Fig. 18)

- US could only reach certain targets on the west frank of Iran (Map on the Left) with Iranian strikes more well positioned. (Map on the Left). and finally (iv)  the character trait of TACO.

For the time being, not all the cards have been revealed but I have high hopes that the cards on the table would be similar to those I presented earlier and Armageddon is still sometimes off. (Fig. 19)

Luke 14:27  And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28  For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— 29  lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30  saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' 31  Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32  Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace. 33  So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.