Is the Biden administration preparing for the wrong kind of war with Iran?

President Biden must shift strategy as he aims to contain Israel-Hamas conflict. He must protect the U.S. homeland first, then focus on deterring broader war in the Middle East.

Rebekah Koffler is a strategic military intelligence analyst and the author of Putin’s Playbook. She is Managing Editor of an e-mail newsletter for independent thinkers, CutToTheNews.com. Follow her on Twitter @Rebekah0132

The Biden administration is likely preparing for a wrong kind of war and must shift its strategy. Rather than focusing exclusively on preventing a multi-front war in the Middle East, President Biden must first and foremost keep the Iranian threat away from the U.S. homeland.

Iran is unlikely to engage in a head-to-head kinetic confrontation with the United States. First, Iran is not suicidal to take on the overwhelmingly superior U.S. military. And second, direct state-on-state combat is not Iran’s way of war. Asymmetric warfare, or fighting in what the U.S. military calls the "gray zone," is the Iranian forces’ signature style, which they have employed since the creation of the Islamic Republic in 1979.