It's Wednesday, March 11, 2026.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Headlines continue to flow from all over the world, but in particular, of course, a lot of attention right now to military action undertaken by the United States and Israel against Iran.

And those headlines are coming to us pretty fast and furiously.

The Trump administration and the Netanyahu government in Israel both indicated that a good many of the ains of the military effort have been met.

But still, you're looking at widespread opposition coming

from Iran and continued asymmetrical warfare. Asymmetrical warfare means that there is no way

that Iran can launch a similar attack to that which is being directed towards it by Israel and

the United States. Asymmetrical means there isn't a symmetry.

And so this is one of those military terms that entered into our popular conversation in the

last century, toward the end of last century.

And it shows something that to the Christian worldview is very important.

We understand how peace is established among nations. We understand how

this is a challenge, but it is also a possibility, at least for some temporary amount of time.

Many of the bad actors around the world aren't truly nation states. And so there are all kinds

of terrorist groups, for example, that would represent a

direct threat to the United States. But the United States can't fight that group exactly like it would

fight a naval or air or ground action against a nation state. When it comes to Iran, here's what

things get complicated, because Iran is a nation state. At the same time, it is also involved in all kinds of proxy terrorist

activities. There's the asymmetry. But the asymmetry is also present right now in the fact that

you don't have a major Iranian Air Force or Army. No major ground force is involved here. And so in

the main, the pushback coming from Iran is coming from either

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