Is the US Repeating the British Empire’s 1783 Blunders in Iran?

Advertisement Two and a half centuries later, in March 2026, the United States launched a war against Iran. The weapons are unrecognisably sophisticated. The geography has shifted. But the structural failure modes — the same five that destroyed Britain’s campaign in America — have returned. America seems to have inherited the British Empire’s blind spots along with its territories. Start with logistics — the Achilles heel of sustaining force across distance. When war erupted in the American colonies in 1775, Britain was maintaining over 92,000 troops overseas at a time when it could take three months to receive an answer…