So, NOW what does Israel do?

[shaarona]

Hahahaha! The Soviets and the Chinese would never have launched against us or against one another because . . . . they might damage infrastructure or actually hurt someone. Nope, try again.

Do you know who Martin Van Creveld is???

http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...Hands-off-Iran

[Cedric]

Do you know who Martin Van Creveld is???

http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...Hands-off-Iran

Yes, he believes in appeasement. Equally qualified experts assert that the is wrong. So it goes.

[Peter1469]

Obama is re-elected, and this galling fact is surely not lost on Israel, which now is, practically speaking, pretty much on its own.

No doubt about it: Amadinejad and the Iranian Islamo-nazis will have nuclear weapons well before we can finally get totally rid of Obama. So, in November 2012, what does Israel do? Nothing? Something? Your opinion, please.

EMP attack. One nuke. Problem solved.

[pollycy]

EMP attack. One nuke. Problem solved.

I'd use thermobaric weapons instead... big ones, in strategic locations where there are large and significant military and/or infrastructure installations. "All the destruction; none of the radiation!" Avoiding the use of nuclear weapons, per se, would also contain the worldwide PR backlash....

Israel will have to make those first strikes on Iran powerful and decisive... they can't get bogged down in any kind of drawn-out conflict because they simply don't have the resources or the "reach" to prosecute a C4I war against Iran, and no other kind of force projection is feasible. Moreover, the Israelis have to keep an vigilant eye on their "back door" with Egypt, which, thanks to the Obama regime's blundering idiocy throughout North Africa, cannot be trusted at all....

[shaarona]

I'd use thermobaric weapons instead... big ones, in strategic locations where there are large and significant military and/or infrastructure installations. "All the destruction; none of the radiation!" Avoiding the use of nuclear weapons, per se, would also contain the worldwide PR backlash....

Israel will have to make those first strikes on Iran powerful and decisive... they can't get bogged down in any kind of drawn-out conflict because they simply don't have the resources or the "reach" to prosecute a C4I war against Iran, and no other kind of force projection is feasible. Moreover, the Israelis have to keep an vigilant eye on their "back door" with Egypt, which, thanks to the Obama regime's blundering idiocy throughout North Africa, cannot be trusted at all....

Israel says that there are 22 targets in Iran.. They sure are going to have to kill millions.