Strategic studies expert believes air power alone won’t be enough to topple Iran regime

Tamara Ceaikovski

(28 Feb 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES+= ASSOCIATED PRESS London - 28 February 2026 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Phillips O’Brien, professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews and author of “War and power: Who Wins Wars and Why’’: “What air power can do is attack the present regime, in some cases quite powerfully, but it cannot guarantee it will be replaced or how it will replaced. And that is the kind of thing that will only happen with the