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We were told that Iraq had a very strong military. But they wilted under US firepower.
Iran, however, really does seem to be a more serious challenge. It’s a big country, they have a good military and they have foreign friends.
I suspect that fighting Iran in a “limited” way would not work well for us. But one of these days we will get back to waging war by obliterating entire cities. That tends to finish things off more decisively. Ask Germany and Japan.
I would like to see how they “gamed” it. Military history of “gaming” is replete with stories of people who went outside the established “rules”.
In real life, “rules” are and should be broken, and intelligent commanders keep those things in mind. In games, that doesn’t always happen due to the structure of the game because they may be trying to test a narrow group of situations.
If we did go to war with Iran, I prefer our chances to successfully wipe out the ports, facilities and infrastructure to a very high degree.
Doesn’t mean it won’t cost us lives. Doesn’t mean they won’t initate terror campaigns around the world to attack our interests. Doesn’t mean we wouldn’t lose ships, planes, and men.
But in the end, they will not win.
I often wonder if a carrier battle group can handle a massed cruise missle attack.
Iran will also line up ‘friends’... another reason Trump needs to work out deals with Russia and China before wading into these shark infested waters.
And - where's the link?”
Van Ripper? What a convenient name for a Marine general.
Ripper was also the name of the Air Force general in Dr Strange Love who launched the bombers.
i wonder whose side he would be on in the upcoming CWII?
The pre Obama American military. Long gone with nothing having been done in the past two years to restore it other than money.
Another article about this.
Very interesting
The US Military failed to learn any lessons from WW2 which was the last major war of the US Military..The others were Brush fire wars..In fact the US Military took on the bad habits of the German army...they built great weapons but costly and extremely technical to maintain...
Sounds like “Up Periscope” with Kelsey Grammner.
He was great in Dr. Strangelove.