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Israel to U.S.: Strike on Iran is feasible
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Ptah
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Just saw this post at Rantburg:
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2006-01-13&ID=139715&HC=2
My comment notes that there are three "choke points" in the bomb production process for fissiles whose bombing would buy at least 2 years for the United States to set things up.
Good Operations Research looks for these sorts of things, which are lynchpins keeping a whole lot of stuff together. Knocking them out is good tactics AND strategy.
Posted by: Ptah on January 13, 2006 03:15 PM
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CG
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Why is it a good idea to publish this information? Now Iran knows to run and not walk at becoming a nuclear power. This information also tells them it is in their best interest to tie up US troops in Iraq. Good job!
Posted by: CG on January 13, 2006 06:40 PM
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kuhnkat
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CG,
do you really think they are so dumb they don't already know this?? The Ayatollahs and a lot of the top people MAY be that dumb, BUT, they can buy most of the information they need!! We can only pray they can't buy ALL they need. That particular information WE DON'T know.
What I find amazing about the article is that they claim to be able to set the development back up to 10 years!! That sounds like being able to destroy a LOT of the equipment they have purchased and built. The knowledge is not likely to be lost so they won't have to start over on research.
So, whadday think. EMP taking down their civilization and most of their sites?? Nuclear stikes on the sites not situated in the middle of population centers?? The nuclear bunker busters that the US supposedly did not develop??
That is a LOT of damage to do with conventional weapons!! They have GOT to be planning land based also.
Our intelligence says 2008. Why would we believe them now??
Posted by: kuhnkat on January 14, 2006 12:46 AM
Israel to U.S.: Strike on Iran is feasible
Geostrategy-Direct ,
Israel's military brass has concluded that an Israeli or U.S. strike
on Iran could eliminate that nation's nuclear weapons facilities. Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz ordered such a report as part of strategic cooperation talks with the United States. Israeli military chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash discussed the report
during his visit to the United States last week. Zeevi-Farkash met the heads of several U.S. intelligence agencies, including the Defense Intelligence Agency, and argued that an air strike against Iran was feasible and would set back Teheran's nuclear program for up to a decade.
Asked last week whether Iran's nuclear weapons program could be eliminated in a military strike, Halutz did not blink. "Professionally, the answer is yes," Halutz told a defense seminar in Tel Aviv. Zeevi-Farkash has gained credibility in the U.S. intelligence community. He headed several joint forums in which Israel provided accurate intelligence on Syria and Iran as well as assessments on Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
But the Bush administration has quelled any serious U.S. discussion over any attack on Iran. U.S. intelligence assessments say the administration could wait until at least 2008 before Iran emerged as a nuclear threat. That would give the United States enough time to implement plans to complete its military withdrawal from Iraq over the next 18 months.
Posted by Ted Belman at January 13, 2006 10:05 AM