US President Donald Trump and top administration officials often boast about the strength of the US military.
And it is true, Iran cannot match that American force.
Iran is looking for other vulnerabilities and that has come in the form of targeting global economic pressure points.
What we are seeing are Iranian threats to target ships playing out despite stern warnings from President Trump not to disrupt oil tanker traffic.
Iran has also effectively released a hit list, via Iranian state media, which includes American tech companies that operate in the region.
It says that the likes of Google, Amazon and Microsoft are now legitimate targets of this war.
These multinationals have for years worried about cyber attacks. Now it will be drones.
Already some Amazon data centres have been targeted in the UAE and Bahrain.
Iran's aim is to cause global economic pain by disrupting oil supply and tech infrastructure.
The questions are how much economic pain can the world take?
And will this push Donald Trump to end the operation?
President Trump told Axios this morning that there is practically nothing left to target in Iran and that is why the war will end soon.
By this afternoon, the US military warned civilians in Iran to avoid all port facilities where Iran's navy is operating.
This war may not be decided in the battlespace, rather in the stability of the global economy.
