Posted on 04/17/2006 7:57:18 AM PDT by IrishMike
The US Army had begun conducting an analysis for a full-scale war with Iran involving missile strikes, a land invasion and a naval operation to establish control over the Strait of Hormuz much before its forces went to war with Iraq in early 2003, a former intelligence expert said Sunday.
His comments come close on the heels of President George W. Bush dismissing news reports that his administration "has been working on contingency plans for war -- particularly talk of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons against Tehran" -- as wild speculation.
Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld also called them "fantasyland" and declared that "it just isn`t useful" to talk about contingency planning, Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported.
The plan called TIRANNT or "theater Iran near term," was coupled with a mock scenario for a Marine Corps invasion and a simulation of the Iranian missile force, William Arkin, who served as the US Army`s top intelligence mind on West Berlin in 1970s and predicted the American operations against Iraq, wrote in the "Washington Post."
US and British planners conducted a Caspian Sea war game around the same time and Bush directed the Strategic Command to draw up a global strike war plan for an attack against Iranian weapons of mass destruction, he said.
"Preparations under TIRANNT began in earnest in May 2003 and never stopped. The plan has since been updated using information collected in Iraq," he said.
Air Force planners have modeled attacks against existing Iranian air defenses and targets, while Navy planners have evaluated coastal defenses and drawn up scenarios for keeping control of the Strait of Hormuz at the base of the Persian Gulf, Arkin wrote in the paper.
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In June 2004, Rumsfeld alerted the command to be prepared to implement CONPLAN 8022, a global strike plan that includes Iran, Arkin writes in the daily. CONPLAN 8022 calls for bombers and missiles to be able to act within 12 hours of a presidential order.
This is nothing new...the US military does this routinely on all countries deemed threats to our security. They'd be in derilication of duty if they didnt.
There's a "Plan" if the Chinese invade Taiwan, there's a plan if NK rushes across the DMZ into SK, there's a plan if VZ tries to take Easter Island and the smurfs invade DeMoines....YAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNN....
Nothing like being prepared....it is a comfort knowing the military has a plan for all contingencies.
I hope they are updating the Mexican plan now.
Operation Crimson, The invasion of Canada.
DOD strategic planners have war plans for just about everything, everywhere with anyone; and the progressions, escalations of these are classified as Contingency Plans.
We have smart and intelligent people constantly in work at our War Colleges and think tanks prepare War Plans. We must be prepare for threats, real or imagined.
I still believe deep down the reason we really went to war with Iraq was to ultimately be in position to attack Iran.
Saddam just made it convenient for us to do so.
Aren't there better beaches in Mexico?
Canada???
What have you been snorting lately?
War Plan Orange was proof that the military wanted a war with the Japanese. < /sarcasm which goes to eleven>
Agreed. The road to Tehran is through Bagdad. Iran would rather fight us in Iraq than at home for the time being.
The big question is what are IRAN's war plans. Their objectives are clear : destroy Isreal and western Christian civilization. Their mechanism and timing is both overt and covert.
Like Iraq? Pants down for sure.
This is really nothing new. The US military has been planning strikes on Iran since the hostage crisis. They have been updated as the political climate changes. Many of these plans are originally 20 years old or more.
The Carter administration. The gift that just keeps giving.
Just a minute. We have been told that the Iraqi war planning started on the day Bush was inagurated; so this means that Clinton started the Iranian war planning?
Can't do it, their border guys are strict. If you don't have your permit to invade stamped and notarized in triplicate, you aren't going anywhere.
Do we have a plan should France invading Luxembourg and should they encounter no wine & cheese worthy of their tastes, concede defeat?
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