Pakistan, June 23 -- America's worst-case planning assumption worked out during the last two to three decades, for a perceived global order is no longer valid post-war; it is a reality in motion now. Central to this assumption was the eventuality of Iran, Russia, and China acting en bloc. Not war-gamed in its true essence, the USA now finds it staring right in its eyes. What Iran's response to the imposed aggression has triggered is not only a stand-alone military outburst but a paradigm shift. Surprisingly, the world has been viewing it as a regional flare-up of late. Hypothesised in isolation and war-gamed on only maps, probably, USA missed out on the capability of this tri-nation bloc to complement each other's weaknesses and supplemen...