Parallel Strategic Attack — Stage II of the Smart Bomb Trap
How infrastructure targeting, airport disruption, and sustained uncertainty signal a shift from retaliation to systemic coercion
Iran is crossing the threshold from discrete retaliation to systemic coercion. What we observe on Day 5 is not simply dispersed horizontal escalation. It is the consolidation of Stage II of the Smart Bomb Trap: a shift from tit-for-tat retaliation to parallel strategic attack against a regional economic web.