The Takshashila Podcast

The US and Israel struck Iran on the morning of February 28.  Israel's Air Force said it flew over 200 fighter jets and fired 1,200+ munitions at Iran on Day 1 of the joint US-Israel campaign, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei along with top military commanders, including IRGC chief Mohammad Pakpour, Armed Forces Chief Abdolrahim Mousavi, Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh, and National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani. Iran retaliated by firing hundreds of missiles across the Gulf, hitting civilian targets in the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman and even Cyprus —internationalising the conflict and inflicting economic pain on Arab states.Join Indian Air Marshal TD Joseph and Colonel KPM Das for a no-holds-barred military analysis: the breathtaking complexity of achieving air superiority over Tehran, the intelligence backbone that enabled precise leadership targeting, Iran's punishing counterstrikes, US-Israel objectives versus Tehran's survival play, the reaction o