Iran War Strategy: Who is Ali Jafari? Who made Iran’s defeat impossible? America and Israel were also surprised.

News India Live, Digital Desk: Amidst the ongoing fierce war in the Middle East, one name is most discussed, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari. He is the same person who has designed Iran’s defense structure in such a way that even superpowers like America and Israel are proving unsuccessful in completely destroying it. Who is Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari? Ali Jafari has been the former Commander-in-Chief of ‘Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC). He began his military career after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and quickly rose up the ranks through his strategic acumen during the Iran–Iraq War. From 2007 to 2019, he reshaped Iran’s military power as the head of the IRGC. Lessons learned from the defeat of the Iraq War. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein’s huge army collapsed like a deck of cards in just 26 days. Ali Jafari studied this defeat closely and found that Iraq’s biggest weakness was its ‘highly centralized command structure’. As soon as Saddam was eliminated, the entire army became directionless. Jafari vowed that he would not let Iran meet the same fate as Iraq. What is ‘Mosaic Defence’? Jafari devised a military strategy which is called ‘Mosaic Defence’. Its main objective was to make Iran like a ‘Hydra’ (a mythical creature whose head is cut off and many more emerge). Decentralization of power: He divided Iran into 31 semi-independent command based on 31 provinces. Independent units: Each province has its own independent headquarters, communication system, intelligence system and missile-drone stock. Autopilot mode: The specialty of this system is that if the top leadership sitting in Tehran Even if the (Supreme Leader or General) dies, the war does not stop. Each regional unit continues the attack independently under a pre-determined ‘destruction plan’. Why is America left confused? On February 28, 2026, the US and Israel launched ‘Operation Epic Fury’, in which Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top generals were killed. America thought that Iran would surrender as soon as the leadership was lost, but the opposite happened: The intensity of the counterattack increased: Despite the loss of leadership, Iran’s missile and drone units independently intensified attacks on America’s regional targets and Israel. Invisible enemy: Due to the absence of any single main command center, American intelligence is not able to understand from where and on whose orders the attacks are taking place.