Iran will go after allies....like Israel...It will be their excuse.
Why would the US invade Iran? Praying Mantis damaged or destroyed half of Iran’s Navy. Praying Mantis redux could wreck Iran’s military aircraft, ships and SAM systems while monkeying with its nuclear program. Think about random recurring cluster bomb attacks incorporating time delayed bomblets fired from Kuwait every few days at suspected nuclear sites.
The whole area is chock-full of that type and we are regionally FAMOUS for being the biggest slobbering, bulgding-pockets rube who'll buy the crappiest camel/carpet/diamond/date around.
Diplomatically, we're total idiots:
"Wait, here he comes..! This is gonna be good! Don't laugh, though..!"
I’m hoping we avoid a war with Iran.
It’s a very big country. It would be foolish to try to “pacify” the countryside. We are not going to win “hearts and minds”. Any effort at “nation building” would be doomed to failure.
If push comes to shove, we could go in there and just break a whole bunch of stuff. But then we should get out. I think the War Powers Act says the President can use the military for 90 days without Congressional approval. Fine. Maybe we break stuff for 60 days and then spend 30 days pulling our assets out of the country. Done.
I’m not underestimating them. They sucked up huge casualties in the war with Iraq and kept coming.
We need to stay out of a fight with Iran.
If do have to fight them, we need to destroy them utterly then LEAVE.
No humanitarian BS.
No “nation-building.”
Leave the survivors squatting in the ruins - let them freeze and starve in the dark.
What stereotype? That’s the entire American garment industry in a nutshell. :)
This article is just another diatribe by a concern troll.
The author clearly writes that President Trump was talking about the Iranian government, and then launches into some drivel about how everyone puts down the Iranian people.
To paraphrase Patton, the whole point is to make sure it's their blood, not ours.
It’s true, you should never under estimate any opponent. But, at the same time you should also be willing to “unleash Hell” if the time comes and not worry about collateral damage, leaving certain things intact to assist in rebuilding, being humanitarian, etc. Basically, go old school, WW2 style and bomb the ever living sh*t out of them.
Toss the rules of Proportionality to the wind.
I remember reading a quote that stated something like....wage war in such a way that your enemy decides when its over....
War with Iran will be bloody. I think what happens outside of Iran, with their proxies will be even worse. The world would soon find out if they and their allies do have “terror sleeping cells” throughout the West, for that “oh sh*t” moment.
While I’m not an adviser to anyone, just some schmo, that country is in ruins and falling further down the hole. It’s wrecked with opium and heroin addiction. Sure, the government has some loyalists, much like Venezuela and NKorea. Let some JDAMS start dropping and we’ll see how loyal they are.
And think, while their population is eating dirt, their money is in the toilet, they still have the rich kids of Tehran, living it up.
https://www.instagram.com/therichkidsoftehran/
Some of dem Persian women are fine as they come.
We’d be better off stirring up a revolution and helping them, than go to war with them.
“Wendy Sherman, a senior State Department official and former lead negotiator who helped forge the Iran nuclear deal in 2015, infamously quipped that Iranians could not be trusted because they have “deception in their DNA.””
If the lead negotiator said this, then why did Obama continue to go through with the deal? makes me wonder how much of a kick back he got from that $1.5 billion cash drop...?
Throwing children at an entrenched enemy line with single shot and semi automatic weapons was WWI.. but it sure was not WWIII weaponry.
The US would obliterate the standard regular forces in short order.
However if the US decides it wants to “nation build” after it does that, it will get mired down once again.
If it comes down to open conflict, Iran, facing it’s demise, will go all doomsday and attack Israel. Anyone not wearing 6,000,000 sunblock will have a very bad day.
“As with any recent war the US fights, the US will crush Iranian conventional forces it is the unconventional war that the US will fail at.”
Are you referring to the terrorist cells and Quds force?
No different than hunting and killing ISIS.
Do not mistake a current lack of will and cause for inability.
US Forces are capable of destroying every Iranian hostile and collaborator in existence. Just ask ISIS. Or, those few that survived and crawled under a rock.
don’t underestimate their future nuclear arsenal and ICBMs pointed at Europe
What are we waiting for and why do they still have a navy?
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The Persians still live in the 20th century from a military standpoint. Of course all wars are bloody, but we take out the Guard, Quds their navy and airforce in 24 to 36 hours.
The Iranian ground forces will surrender to CNN reporters.
Imho...with some military background.
5.56mm
“Ahistorical”?
Iran, as it currently exists, has only fought one actual war, the Iran-Iraq war, which was fought to a deadlock, not a win. They’ve fought proxy wars, in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, but I don’t think any of those have been wins either. So what is “ahistorical”?
If the mullahs of Tehran trigger a war, the U.S. and Israel will not be alone in the military retaliation opposing them. The regime will be done for, and the opposition political movements will have a chance to restore a democratic society dominated by secular law to Iran. Once that happens, Russia and China will be big losers as well.
But has Iran let trannies into front line units, or made their soldiers march in high-heels so they better understand their male privilege? That’s what the military is really all about.
Someone described the Iran-Iraq war as World War I fought with World War III weapons.