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| Iran preparing insurgent forces to fight US in the event of invasion |
| 2006-06-01 |
| Iran, apparently anticipating an American invasion, has quietly been restructuring its military and testing a new military doctrine that calls for a decentralized, Iraqi-style guerrilla campaign against an invading force. Iran's military planners are acutely aware that a military confrontation with technologically more advanced U.S. armed forces would be rapid and multifronted, unlike the static and slow-paced 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Therefore, a series of war games have been carried out since late last year to test the army's readiness. In December, more than 15,000 members of the regular armed forces participated in an exercise in northwestern Iran's strategically sensitive Azerbaijan border provinces that focused on irregular warfare carried out by highly mobile army units, according to the official MENA news agency. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #6 There is no certainty that any air campaign only, however prolonged and intensive, will result in either "regime change" via domestic uprising, or in inducing Moud-Mullahs to voluntarily give up dev nuke weapons. A ground invasion in parallel wid democratic "regime change" is the ultimate best way to ensure Iran has no nukes - even presuming that the flyboyz or missleboyz obliterate the surface of Iran 100% or 1000%, the possibility will always exist that Iran's Radical govt, as remaining in Tehran or in hiding underground, post-attack(s) will rebuild and re-dev indigens nukes, or buy nukes, or receive nukes, from the black market or foreign nations hostile to American or Western interests. The uncertainty inherent to any air-only campaign > RADICAL IRAN GETS ITS NUKES LATER, NOT NOW OR IN VERY NEAR-TERM. An air campaign by itself is also unlikely to preclude Iran from supporting Iran-sponsored/sup armed terror groups whose focii is the destabilization and destruction of Israel and the entire pro-Western, Neutralist, or democratic ME, I.E. IRAN-CENTRIC/DOMIN REGIONAL later GLOBAL [RADICAL ISLAMIST] EMPIRE. And regardless of what the statistics say about how strong or weak, mostly weak, Iran is, we are dealing wid an ideo such that Radical Iran = Cold War USSR-Commie Bloc > have no qualms ignoring or writing off wilful massive account deficit(s) to achieve desired levels of military-econ parity or superiority against the US-NATO/West, I.E. DON'T GIVE A DAMN, AND NEVER GAVE A DAMN, WHETHER THEY CAN AFFORD IT OR NOT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-01 21:37 |
| #5 Wouldn't it be easier just to hit the Nuclear sights and let contamination take care of the hard-boys assigned to protect it? |
| Posted by: Charles 2006-06-01 21:10 |
| #4 Such a force of irregulars might be useful in beating down rioting students and minorities and claiming it was done by fellow citizens. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-06-01 15:26 |
| #3 Right on mojo. Hey Mahmoud, USAF/USN vs. Saddam's Iraqi 'Air Force'. One of these things is not like the other..... |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-06-01 11:11 |
| #2 Is'nt this to our advantage. They would have to send people to all parts of thier country. The longer they stay there, the sooner they think like the people of that area, which is'nt always good for the mullahs. And since we know we are not going to attack, but they don't, they will be out there a while. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2006-06-01 10:09 |
| #1 Don't need to invade to wreck the joint, boys. |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-06-01 10:05 |