According to Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Israeli military operations in the region have become strategically costly. Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump are increasingly at odds—the U.S. administration seeks to exit the conflict while Israeli forces remain tied down in Lebanon. Miller assesses that none of Netanyahu's core war objectives have materialized: proxy networks remain intact, ballistic missile capabilities are unrestricted, and neither regime change nor meaningful regime weakening has occurred. The misaligned goals of the two allies mean military operations continue without clear strategic direction.

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