A war without guns!
By: Yasser Al-Fadni
What is noticeable these days, to anyone who follows events with a discerning eye and a mind not deceived by the noise, is that the militia and its allies have moved to a phase other than direct confrontation. It is a phase where bullets are not heard, but defeats are manufactured if awareness is absent. War is no longer just about brandishing guns; it has become a war of rumors, poisonous analyses, and fabricated images designed to create a spectacle that distracts people from the greater realities being built on the ground.
The first of these attempts, an old one that keeps resurfacing, is the relentless effort to sow discord among the forces supporting the armed forces—a battle to fracture their ranks. They understand that the cohesion of the home front is the true, unbreakable wall. Whenever they fail on the battlefield, they return to knock on the doors of dissent, fanning the embers in the hope of igniting a fire. But each time, they are met with a growing awareness and accumulated experience gained from harsh lessons.
The second tactic involves cells operating in the shadows, within the joints of the civil service, where some arms remain hidden, not openly displaying their hostility. But it poisons the well of details. Here, a transaction is stalled; there, a decision is distorted; and elsewhere, seeds of doubt are sown. It is a slow war, but no less dangerous than the sound of cannons, because it targets state institutions from within.
The third of these methods is manipulating sovereign decisions, especially those related to the leadership of the armed forces. These are administrative and organizational decisions, taken as any living institution would when reorganizing its ranks. However, they are amplified and interpreted in a suspicious manner, as if the goal were not understanding, but rather sowing doubt. Added to this is the attack on some ministers and governors with negative criticism, based not on objective evaluation, but on a desire to undermine confidence and create confusion.
All these tools, in their various forms, converge on a single goal: to destabilize the structure of the state and abort the post-war achievements—achievements that were not anticipated by those who thought the country had completely collapsed and that its recovery was impossible. But what they failed to realize is that states are not built only in times of peace, but are reshaped in the midst of crises.
The deeper intention behind all of this This is the weakening of the armed forces, not through direct confrontation, but by creating gaps between them and the forces that support them, sowing seeds of doubt, and disseminating narratives that fuel apprehension, until cohesion turns into disunity and coordination into confusion. It is a battle that targets the spirit before the body, and trust before strength.
In conclusion, this country, which has endured a true inferno, is not naive enough to fall into the traps of whispered voices. Awareness today is the first line of defense, and what is orchestrated in secret can be thwarted in the open, when events are analyzed deeply, not superficially, and when people realize that the most dangerous wars are those that go unseen, yet are designed to disrupt all that is stable.