Israel is the 21st Century Dien Bien Phu

 The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a trap set up by the superior French colonial forces in Vietnam to try to defeat the weaker Viet Minh forces in 1954. The Viet Minh then were fighting the French using guerilla tactics, hit and run, fight at night and sleep in the day in the deep jungle. The French found it difficult to chase the Viet Minh in the deep jungle. So they set up a trap to lure the Viet Minh in an all out battle in the open. Dien Bien Phu was in the centre of a valley surrounded by mountains from a distance. 

The French strategy was to use Dien Bien Phu as a bait, sitting in the centre of a plain, believing that an attack by the Viet Minh would end up in a slaughter. The French had superior weapons, big guns, artillery, cannon, tanks etc waiting for the Viet Minh. The French believed that the Viet Minh did not have the weapons with enough range to hit them from the safety of the mountains and jungles. The only way to fight the French was to launch an attack by charging into Dien Bien Phu. The French just simply sat it out, just waiting for the Viet Minh to come after them and to be slaughtered.

What the French did not bargain for was that the Russians and Chinese could supply them with heavy weapons, artillery etc that could hit the French position without the French being able to hit them. The French became sitting ducks, being hammered by the Viet Minh surrounding them and thoroughly beaten. A grand plan based on arrogance and the belief in their own superiority was turned around to defeat the French forces by a supposedly poorly equipped Viet Minh force.

Israel is today like Dien Bien Phu, sitting comfortably in the midst of Arab and Muslim states, believing in its own superiority and arrogance, that it can hit the Arabs and Muslims and the latter unable to hit back at Israel. The last 30 days of missile and drone attacks by Iran said it all. Iran is fully capable of hitting every corner of Israel and Israel could not do very much against an Iran almost the size of India and strategically protected by mountain ranges. 

The full impact on Israel as the Dien Bien Phu is when all the Arab and Muslim states start to send all their missiles and drones into Israel. When it happens, Israel will be pummeled to debris, worse than the Gaza. The range and destructiveness of modern weapons are many times more powerful than in the days of Dien Bien Phu. Nothing can save Israel. Israel cannot last half a day on such an all out attack. There will be no Israel to talk about. There will also be no Israelis around. The reach of the weapons of all the Arab and Muslim states would be more than enough to submerge Israel like the Great Flood, but this time it would not be water but fire power.

Diego Garcia can also be Dien Bien Phu with modern weapons. Modern weapons have changed the equation of military tactics and strategies.