By: B A Hamzah
The war against Iran has been going on for more than five months, running up against the adage that history teaches: wars are easier to start than to end. Tactical victories can become strategic defeats if they deepen instability rather than resolve it.
For ASEAN, the lesson from the unfinished war is not to take sides in great-power confli…
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