WINNING: Asymmetric Echoes May 4, 2021: Israeli military commanders have long warned their subordinates to be alert to new forms of asymmetric warfare. This form of conflict is ancient and nothing more than gaining the element of surprise by developing a tactic or weapon the enemy is now aware of or not prepared to defend against. The latest asymmetric threat is off the coast, where Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon and a Hamas in Gaza are now trying out new tactics and weapons. In the north the main threat is to the new source of Israeli wealth in the form of offshore natural gas deposits worth billions of dollars and now in production. So much gas is now available that Israeli domestic needs are already met and export customers are sought. More gas being produced than Israel needs and this surplus is going to exist for at least a decade or more. New offshore gas and oil exploration techniques that Israel used have been adopted by Lebanon, Egypt, Greece and Turkey. Iran sees this offshore asset as an Israeli vulnerability and wants to attack Israeli offshore facilities. To further complicate the situation Turkey is seeking to take possession of offshore areas that belong to Greece and, it is feared, eventually Lebanon as well. This Iranian threat has generated blowback in the form of a Lebanese effort to reduce Hezbollah control over southern Lebanon and disruption of the democracy Lebanon is seeking to preserve.