Live Updates: Iran Vows ‘Forceful Revenge’ After U.S. Kills General
How big a splash will Iran's retaliation for the killing of their Qud leader have to be to justify our nation going to war with Iran?
How many dead Americans would you say?
How many will you accept without going to war?
If they just kill...four...Americans, will that not be enough?
Are you actually trying for some kind of pre-war line in the sand justification? Really? Why? Are you heavy on defense stocks?
I'm just trying to determine where these whiners about "endless wars" stand.
Simple as that.
Notice how cowardly they are in not answering?
I got you, man. I hate the endless wars in the middle east. We should have finish mission in Afghanistan, never gone to Iraq and pricked the boil on the backside of the region, but we did and there we are. OK.
The Iranian military machine is not up to toe to toe combat with the number one super power on the planet. They will (according Command and General Staff School, the last i completed) continue to effectively use asymmetric warfare (non-linear, shoot and scoot, hit and run, hard to pin down) tactics to support their strategy. I see no signs we have had a strategy in the middle east at any time since 9/11. It's been a money maker and a life taker ever since some idiot sold "Regime Change" to Jr., but never with a strategy for successful outcome in the region. I personally think the regime change thing precluded it. We absolutely suck and nation building. It don't go back together as easily as it was taken apart. There ain't a "How To" book and there are too many moving parts, stake holder, friendly and enemy player, etc.
That being the case, putting a lot of troops in the field, they way we deploy offers more targets than rapid response capability or ground holding ability, due to the methods of the enemy tactics. I favor tit for tat pounding of short and long term
strategic targets, using drones, manned air, missles, and other fast strike capability without presenting a much of a front, conflagration of troops, equipment and hard targets of our own within easy reach of the enemy. Naturally there would need to be lots of small unit work on the ground for intel and designation of targets. the Special Forces, special team guys, mostly, small team/small footprint. They will not try to take and hold terrain and we should not either. Obviously there is a lot more to it than that, but you get the gist. No large footprint, no committing to take and hold towns, no winning the hearts and minds and most of all NO REGIME CHANGE. But, hey. I am just an old schooled, armature now.