\n The US has \u201cno easy path toward success\u201d in the war with Iran, said Malcolm Davis, Senior Analyst in Defence Strategy with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra.\n <\/p>\n
\n Davis told CNN\u2019s Polo Sandoval that he\u2019s not hopeful that the US and Iran will come to a deal during a possible second round of negotiations in Islamabad this week, because the divide between what both countries want is too great.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s not a good likelihood that we will see something come out of this that will actually resolve this (conflict),\u201d Davies said. If talks are inconclusive, the US has two main options, Davies said: either the US will continue its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, or it will \u201cgo back to war fighting mode.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n There is \u201cno guarantee that simply bombing Iran will achieve US strategic objectives,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthere\u2019s a real risk that this war spins out of control and it doesn\u2019t really achieve anything.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n If US President Donald Trump were to walk away from the war and declare victory without achieving his aims, such as dismantling Iran\u2019s nuclear program, adversaries such as China and Russia will see the US as weak, Davies added.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe Iranians have essentially been a more resilient adversary than I think the US thought they were,\u201d Davies said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s a challenging situation because this conflict is not just about Iran, this has strategic implications for the wider international strategic environment.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US has \u201cno easy path toward success\u201d in the war with Iran, said Malcolm Davis, Senior Analyst…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,7788,21627,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-403060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-hnk","10":"tag-intl","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}