***** BREAKING NEWS ***** Operation Armored Fist

A normal operation would be called operation rigid fist up bottom. Armored fist sounds painful.

movement of many large planes inbound or outbound, in addition to the regular "birds" they would see...large numbers of large planes is always a sign...to look for when the military is performing an emergency deployment...

operation arm-deep fisting

not yet. keeping an eye on Nebraska though. things could get very interesting soon.

people...our nation does not conduct an training mission of this size...unless we intend to execute on it...

an operation that covers over half of the Eastern seaboard is not a normal operation...

First, an Iranian nuclear weapons capability is “unacceptable”, as both the Bush and Obama Administrations have put it; and second, we prefer getting to an acceptable outcome without using force. The debate gets testy when we consider that means short of force, such as sanctions and covert technical sabotage, might not work.

What would an honest assessment of the risks of military conflict with Iran look like? How should we think about it? These are difficult questions even for those who are not partisans of one side or the other. Wars are notorious for yielding unintended and unexpected consequences; for reasons explained below, a war against Iran is even harder than usual to bound analytically.

Complexity, Uncertainty and War

Our first consideration in analyzing the likely course of war with Iran is that a U.S.-led attack would be merely the first phase of a war, the opening act of an extended drama whose scenes would unfold, not according to any script, but to an emergent logic of its own. Given the political context in which military engagement would rest, even a minor attack would likely become a major test of strength involving not only the United States and Iran but also a host of allies and associates. It is therefore disingenuous to try to frame military action against Iran as a simple “raid” or even a broader “operation.” We are talking here about war, with attendant potential high costs to all combatants in terms of military casualties, civilian damage and economic disruption...

Whose War, for What Purpose?

Perhaps the most critical contextual element concerns how senior U.S. decision-makers, the presumed initiators of war in this case, would construe their war aims. These aims must somehow affirm that force can be employed to achieve reasonable political and strategic objectives, but those objectives could range from the limited to the expansive. Three sets of objectives come readily to mind.
First, a war could aim to simply delay the Iranian nuclear weapons program through the physical destruction of key facilities and human assets: a Peenemünde option, so to speak. Second, war could aim to effectively end the Iranian nuclear program by inflicting broad damage on its components and other key regime assets, military, infrastructure and leadership, combined with the threat to re-strike as necessary: a submission option. Third, war could aim to topple the regime through a concerted campaign against its assets and supporting mechanisms, coupled with support to its presumably less WMD-desirous opponents: a regime change option...

How It Ends

Just as we cannot rule out escalation, we cannot rule out the harmful protraction of a war. Every war has to end, but how it does so is no simple matter. Even if it were soundly defeated, Iran could complicate the endgame. It’s not simply a matter of our declaring “mission accomplished” and bringing the troops home. As retired Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czege writes:

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82ndAirborneSniper Heya, would you mind skyping up and allowing me to do an interview with you on this topic? My name is "Montagraph" and I would like to ask you some specific questions on this matter if you have the time?

Please contact me with your skype name at [email protected] I would really appreciate it.

don't know, an op that encompasses over half the eastern seaboard...hugely expensive...and the military does nothing unless we get a true return on our investment...we do nothing without serious intent and purpose

*sigh*

yup you found it...

Great. Wonder how many millions it will cost us to fund their little 'exercise' (joyride)

Wonder if this guy is in the know somehow...

freaky stuff, all the way around.



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Wonder if this guy is in the know somehow...

freaky stuff, all the way around.



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should be named " operation red dildo " as it is meant to screw over Americans in one way or another.