Like to hear that said from the top but not holding my breath.
Narrow shallow water
They have thousands of anti-ship missiles spread over thousands of square miles, hidden in caves. We need to destroy every one of them to open the straits. Without “boots on the ground” covering all of the launch territory, this won't be easy.
As a comparison, to show the difficulty of destroying all of the mobile missiles, the Iraqis were launching SCUDs up until the very end of Desert Storm. And SCUDs are enormous rockets that must be erected to vertical, and filled with liquid fuel from tanker trucks before they can be fired. And with all of our assets, we were not able to prevent them from launching.
OTOH, the anti-ship missiles are smaller, solid fuel rockets, launched from near-horizontal from trucks. IOW, they take just a fraction of the time to pull out of a hidden cave and launch.
Anybody who thumps his chest and says, “The US Navy can keep the straits open, easy,” is a fool in my estimation. Not unless they have figured out a way to find and destroy thousands of mobile missile launchers spread over thousands of square miles of craggy cliffs and ravines surrounding the straits.
Until the muslim in chief says otherwise.
All that is needed is for a President with credibility (which means it won’t happen for a while) to state clearly and without any equivocation, “the day that Iran closes the Straits of Hormuz will be the day I authorize the cities of Tehran, Tabriz and Qom to join Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the history books. Don’t say you weren’t warned, you little Persian pricks.”
The traitor in chief will find some way to hamstring the Navy, de-funding is top of the list.
Obama wants an oil starved America, his “green” commie friends are terribly anxious to get their grants.
When Zer0 gets back from vacation the ‘not tolerated’ remark will be revised into ‘we’ll discuss it’.
Fix is in deep! War with Iran in 2012, Americans expected to be “united” behind the Pres__ent, and the Republican nominee will tone down his politics.
Result? Four more years, if we can survive that long.
For awhile.
However, with 1/3 of the worlds' export oil passing through there daily the price to Iran for such an act would be far, far more than they can bear.
Certain regime change. Loss of territory (30 mile "international zone" buffer around the area of Bandar Abbas). Destruction of ALL military capability. Seizure of oil fields to pay the bill.
Anyone remember the Carter Doctrine?
I thought Obama turned the 5th Fleet over to Iran’s control?
Obama will no doubt launch a renewed effort to get us to keep our tires inflated and tuneup our cars.
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What is the feasibility of building a pipeline across Saudi Arabia to a port on the Red Sea, or elsewhere? Probably not much chance of it happening, but it might be cheaper than having our Navy protect the world oil supply.
LOL! The communist coward Obama will never, ever use the military to protect the U.S.