Posted on 01/21/2006 9:18:59 AM PST by Dark Skies
Could be -- but "asymmetrical war" works both ways. I'm guessing (based on little more than impressions based on various articles I've read) that there's more than a little internal instability in Iran. The "apparent power struggle" is just one thing. There's also a great deal of financial instability, and I think the neo-Taliban crackdown is both a symptom of previous unrest, and a precursor to more unrest.
Our "assymetry" -- or better, the Russians', since they've got a lot of experience in it -- would be to feed that unrest, in order to take down the mullahs once and for all. I think it'd take a lot less than folks think.
The appointments come 12 days after a plane crash in northwest Iran, which killed 11 senior IRGC commanders, including the commander of the IRGC Ground Forces. The crash was a serious blow to the IRGC at a critical time when the force has been given huge powers by the Supreme Leader in the wake of the consolidation of power by the ultra-conservative faction after hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office as president.
Ah, the age old question.
Which came first ?
The plane crash or the egg?
---I think you all should relax.---
And let this sort of rhetoric become normalized? I don't think so.
We have established worldwide dominance WITHOUT even deploying our latest air technology (F-22, F-35).
I read in a thread somewhere here that in live mock battles a single F-22 took out something like 10 F-15s. Since the fall of the USSR, the "old school" F-15E has an astounding 26:0 kill ratio, I don't think we have to worry about Iran's old Soviet-era "airforce."
I heard today that Iran isn't saying where they are moving their "assets." Surely we know, right?
Thanks for the clarifications.
As mich as I love military craft, it is hard to keep up. They keep upgrading and changing designations on the good old stuff (they will never make a more beautiful craft than the F-15 IMHO).
And the deployment schedule of the F-22 and its capabilities and latest results are also difficult to track.
But at least it is good to know we match on the bottom line: Salami and is bolonies don't have a chance.
I hope the American people can stomach losing one...
cause we surely will (Praying I'm Wrong)
---What are you talking about? This rhetoric is designed to provoke a response. Once it either succeeds or fails, it will end.---
It is the tongue that spreads evil abroad. The response they are trying to provoke is not from us, but from all those millions of Muslims. What was once unthinkable, becomes a commonplace.
You make the same mistake, the politicians made on the eve of WWII. You assume it is all talk and bluster and that it's aimed at you.
I am compelled to agree. The asymmetrical aspect is interesting. However, it seems to be a war of "wills". We have the will to win. Who will step back from the precipice?
Who was it who said, "It will be the mother of all battles."?
Clue: we dug him from a fox hole.
Clue: his army beat the snot out of Iran.
Noteworthy that they ground each other to a halt. The economic conditions have changed. Iran's alignment with Syria is not to be taken lightly. Odd that the Turks have not received media amplification. Nonetheless, Europe stands as the economic buffer. Given their history; the infighting should commence soon.
Though I believe the F-22's results vs. the F-15, the kid in me is in denial, even astonished. The F-22's capability is far beyond my imagination. The competition to drive those suckers must be extreme.
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