On September 9, 2025, Israel struck Qatar. There was no battlefield, no front line. Instead, the target was a sovereign state hosting negotiations that Israel itself was involved in. When the missile hit Doha, it set a dangerous precedent.That same strike architecture reappeared on February 28, at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, when the compound of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was targeted in Tehran.In both cases, Israeli aircraft remained outside the target state’s airspace and released a missile that completed the strike independently. That single operational choice removes the defining constraint of air warfare: penetration.The Doha...