Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Stratfor: Red Alert: The Battle Joined
Stratfor intelligence ^ | 07/21/2006 | analysis@stratfor.com

Posted on 07/21/2006 11:05:26 AM PDT by STFrancis

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-65 next last
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ain't it the delightful truth? (snort!)


41 posted on 07/21/2006 1:18:14 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Memo To: Uncle Sam Re: Terrorists, Insurgents and Illegal Combatants...NoUniforms... No Prisoners!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: STFrancis; All
If this is the situation, then Israel needs to be on offensive.

Hell-a-baluu is sponsored, armed and directed not by Syria but by Iran.

The next step is for Israel to tell Iran that the next target is ...

Tehran.
42 posted on 07/21/2006 1:24:16 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (Mr. Jazzy, VPD of LCpl Smoothguy242, USMC, LavaDog 1/3 Marines Ooorah!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sono

I question the efficacy of bunker busters. They apparently were used in Beruit on the complex there and we don't know what they did. We do know no big baddies were done in.

Also in Iraq we watched them fall but never saw really damaged bunkers. To the contrary, we saw bunkers entered and cautiously explored.


43 posted on 07/21/2006 1:29:20 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: STFrancis
Israel faces a complex and challenging task. Defeating the PLO on the ground was a piece of cake back in the 80s. Hezbollah put a lot of thought and effort into making sure Israel can't do that again. Now Israel will have to counter with some surprises of her own in this war.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)

44 posted on 07/21/2006 1:29:38 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fireforeffect

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man." -- George S. Patton


45 posted on 07/21/2006 1:38:56 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: fireforeffect
All these articles about 200 foot deep bunkers are funny. Did not do the talaban much good did it?

In case you didn't notice Sadam Hussien's bunkers survived our best bunker busters. German engineering is pretty good.

46 posted on 07/21/2006 1:51:10 PM PDT by itsahoot (The home of the Free, Because of the Brave (Shamelessly stolen from a Marine)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Mike Darancette

Hell, come out of the Golan, put the Litani on your left flank and drive for Beirut.


47 posted on 07/21/2006 1:51:33 PM PDT by gura
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: SierraWasp

Hiz will just jump over into syria.


48 posted on 07/21/2006 2:42:39 PM PDT by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: gotribe
Hiz will just jump over into syria.

Not if you cut them off before they can get around the Golan.

49 posted on 07/21/2006 2:44:55 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: gura
Drive fro Golan keep the river on your right flank and drive north of Tyre while coming up from the south. Trap them in the South and avoid having Lebanese troops linking up.
50 posted on 07/21/2006 2:52:42 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Make them go home!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: thoughtomator
Israel should just annex the southern half of Lebanon and be done with it.

Israel should have annexed the southern part of Lebanon, Gaza Strip and West Bank long ago, tossed out the Arabs and set up a secure border.

51 posted on 07/21/2006 3:09:37 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Where you go with me, heaven will always be.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Little Bill

Bunkers were the Japanese tactic in the Pacific on Iwo and Oki and other places. They were expensive to clean up but they did not survive. We did not have the bunker busting weapons and precision capabilities that we (and Israel) have now.


52 posted on 07/21/2006 3:20:58 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: STFrancis

There is no way that Israel is going to Bekaa. I would be surprised if they went farther north than Sidon.


53 posted on 07/21/2006 3:24:43 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Wolfstar
Israel should just annex the southern half of Lebanon and be done with it.

1967. It would not have been diffiult then, not like that same operation now. They should have pushed the saracens into Jordan and Egypt and flooded the West Bank, Gaza, and Southern Lebanon with settlers. That's "flooded," not merely "allowed to settle." Non Moslem Lebanese could have been allowed to stay; others pushed north.

54 posted on 07/21/2006 3:32:39 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: STFrancis

I don't see how fighting from fortified positions against an enemy with air superiority is a good strategy. No mobility and Israel knows or will discover where they are.


55 posted on 07/21/2006 5:29:22 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mike Darancette

That's one option for sure - instead of entering the bekaa valley, just cut it off and starve it. If the good guys can take the heights, they can pummel the valley forever without much risk. And the IAF can keep the syrians at bay. But the israelis will still have to cut off the rat paths and rather quickly.


56 posted on 07/21/2006 5:31:43 PM PDT by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: ThanhPhero
That's "flooded," not merely "allowed to settle." Non Moslem Lebanese could have been allowed to stay; others pushed north.

All that does is move the missle targets north. Israel needs an occupied, uninhabited buffer zone. And that will have to get wider over time as Muslims get their hands on longer and longer range missles.

57 posted on 07/21/2006 5:38:42 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: STFrancis

What if Iran is crazy enough to use their missiles on Israel with an attack on the Americans in Iraq? Crazy, yes, but then they are crazy to begin with!


58 posted on 07/21/2006 11:53:10 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: My2Cents
I definitely agree. Invading Lebanon and taking heavy casualties against dug in Hezbollah forces is playing right into what Iran wants. Stay on the defense in Lebanon and continue air strikes with bunker busters and use the full force of the IDF to surround and destroy the Bekaa valley and everyone in it. The US should support this with everything we have in the arsenal. Its time to stop worrying about the what the Arab street thinks. We are fast approaching the point described in VDH's column "Patience is wearing thin". Its time to give them an example of total annihilation.
59 posted on 07/22/2006 3:46:41 AM PDT by 1911a1freep
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: 1911a1freep

What the IDF should do, IMHO, is move rapidly to the Litani river, seal it off, then turn southward and start to clean out the Hexbollah, one village at a time.


60 posted on 07/22/2006 3:52:38 AM PDT by ken5050
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-65 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson