http://news.usni.org/2015/08/24/opinion-the-problem-with-bombing-iran
A technician looks at an air campaign.
Good article
important to move away from the visceral lets just bomb them type of rhetoric that our politicians love to use as sound bytes.
Con
This is why I'm concerned that Israel will resort to nukes in an attack on Iran if they feel backed into a corner.
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on August 25, 2015, 08:50:08 PM
This is why I'm concerned that Israel will resort to nukes in an attack on Iran if they feel backed into a corner.
If Israel really feels backed into a corner, they'll nuke Iran and anyone else they think is a threat.
If it happens, whoever they nuke, the world will be a very different and much scarier place afterwards.
Israel isn't nuking anyone.
Because in Yiddish they would be
"Nuk'ng alemen"
QuoteTo put it bluntly, the risk of escalation poses such extreme and costly risks, that few in the profession of arms recommend this course of action for achieving the limited objective of destroying Iran's nuclear program. Iran can hit back, and they can hit back hard.
Limited objective?
Seriously?
The problem isn't "managing escalation" after bombing Iran. It's whether we attempt to manage escalation before they have a nuke, or after they have a nuke and become seriously enthusiastic about spreading terror around the globe with the extra trillion bucks Obama is giving them.