Interesting blogs on the WWW internet thingy, peoplez !
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
---00---
http://www.fatladysings.us/
September 19, 2007
They haven't given up on bombing Iran
The next war would begin with an intense air and naval campaign. Let's
say you're planning the conflict as part of the staff of the Joint
Chiefs. Your list of targets isn't that long -- only a few dozen
nuclear sites -- but you can't risk retaliation from Tehran. So you
allow 21 days for the bombardment, to be safe; you'd aim to strike
every command-and-control facility, radar site, missile site, storage
site, airfield, ship and base in Iran. To prevent world oil prices
from soaring, you'd have to try to protect every oil and gas rig, and
the big ports and load points. You'd need to use B-2s and lots of
missiles up front, plus many small amphibious task forces to take out
particularly tough targets along the coast, with manned and unmanned
air reconnaissance. And don't forget the Special Forces, to penetrate
deep inside Iran, call in airstrikes and drag the evidence of Tehran's
nuclear ambitions out into the open for a world that's understandably
skeptical of U.S. assertions that yet another Gulf rogue is on the
brink of getting the bomb.
But if it's clear how a war with Iran would start, it's far less clear
how it would end. How might Iran strike back? Would it unleash
Hezbollah cells across Europe and the Middle East, or perhaps even
inside the United States? Would Tehran goad Iraq's Shiites to rise up
against their U.S. occupiers? And what would we do with Iran after the
bombs stopped falling? We certainly could not occupy the nation with
the limited ground forces we have left. So what would it be: Iran as a
chastened, more tractable government? As a chaotic failed state? Or as
a hardened and embittered foe?
Continue reading "They haven't given up on bombing Iran" =BB
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D
.
|
