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2008-07-14 Arabia

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Posted by 3dc 2008-07-14 02:08|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Looks ready to do some serious hurt...

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2008-07-14 04:34|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-07-14 04:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Escalation scenarios are running amok. The Ayatollahs brag both about having mobile missile launch capacity, and their ability to hit targets at long range. That mentality serves only to feed a pretext to the other side. Where there is mobility, targeting has to be over a wide range. In GW1, anti-missile work was search and destroy; that's not easy when the launcher can be parked in a building. Long range capacity manifests civilian targeting.

Hmmm. We have to protect women and children. Ergo enemy life has the moral value of cockroaches; launch capacity has to be terminated by any necessary means.

Truman did the same math in 1945.

The British Navy held the Strait of Hormuz during much of the 18th and 19th centuries. The north bank must be made an American Gibraltar.

Posted by McZoid 2008-07-14 04:38|| 2008-07-14 04:38|| Front Page Top

#3 A lot of landing craft in that group.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-14 08:08|| 2008-07-14 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Bookmarked the blog. Thanks W. Also a Mrs. Davis sighting there in the comments.

Posted by .5MT">.5MT 2008-07-14 08:45|| 2008-07-14 08:45|| Front Page Top

#5 I am glad to see the USS Momsen in that number. "Swede" Momsen was a true US Navy hero:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Momsen

He was also shafted by the Roosevelt-era War Department for proving them wrong for fielding a defective torpedo, they refused to admit was defective.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-14 09:42|| 2008-07-14 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Free Balochistan from the Persians?

I wonder if the Arab World (especially the Emirates and Qatar, etc) would want to add another Arab emirate, sitting in Bandar Abbas and the surrounding region? After all, the area is ethnically Arab.

Start an uprising there, via supply from Afghanistan. Use the Kurds in the north to distract the Mullahs while this is being set up.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-14 10:24|| 2008-07-14 10:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Also interesting to see FGS Emden in the order of battle. The original light cruiser SMS Emden had quite a legendary career in the Indian Ocean.

Posted by Mike 2008-07-14 10:42|| 2008-07-14 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Note the 4 US MCM ships. Iranian naval mines are a huge threat, and probably more of a threat than the missiles in terms of shutting down oil traffic in the persian gulf

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-14 10:49|| 2008-07-14 10:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Right, OS. The Iranian response will be against oil production, not a military target. Mines and surface attacks against oil tankers will be their 'revenge' and final peep.
All we need is a president with cojones.

Posted by wxjames 2008-07-14 12:04|| 2008-07-14 12:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Compare wid WAFF.com Poster Threads > USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN MOVES TO NEAR PAKISTANI COAST, US SPECIAL FORCES PREPARE TO CONDUCT OPERATION INSID + US WOULD INVADE PAKISTAN TO ELIMINATE TERROR CELLS.

Also from WAFF.com >INDIA > MAOISTS HITTING INDIAN ECONOMY [encircling Urban Areas] + INDIA IS FAILING AS A STATE.

*STARS-N-STRIPES [old] > [IIRC] USN CARRIER BATTLE GROUP [USS Ronald Reagan = "Ronnie/Mighty Ron"] MOVES TO NEAR KOREAS/KOREAN COASTS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-14 19:53|| 2008-07-14 19:53|| Front Page Top

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