Report: Pentagon war game shows Israeli strike on Iran would lead to wider war
In the Obama administration's latest effort to scare Israel out of attacking Iran, the New York Times reports that a top-secret Pentagon war game simulation of an Israeli strike on Iran shows that such a strike would lead to a wider war and many American casualties (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). The results of the war game were particularly troubling to Gen. James N. Mattis, who commands all American forces in the Middle East, Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia, according to officials who either participated in the Central Command exercise or who were briefed on the results and spoke on condition of anonymity because of its classified nature. When the exercise had concluded earlier this month, according to the officials, General Mattis told aides that an Israeli first-strike would likely have dire consequences across the region and for United States forces there.Sorry guys, but we're not going to be the ones to take a massive nuclear hit because the fool in the White House has managed to waste three and a half years. We're going to try to save ourselves, and if we can't, God forbid, we will at least take as many Iranians as possible with us.
The two-week war game, called “Internal Look,” played out a narrative in which the United States found it was pulled into the conflict after Iranian missiles struck a Navy warship in the Persian Gulf, killing about 200 Americans, according to officials with knowledge of the exercise. The United States then retaliated by launching its own strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The initial Israeli attack was assessed to have set back the Iranian nuclear program by roughly a year, and the subsequent American strikes did not slow the Iranian nuclear program by more than an additional two years. However, other Pentagon planners have said that America’s arsenal of long-range bombers, refueling aircraft and precision missiles could do far more damage to the Iranian nuclear program — if President Obama were to decide on a full-scale retaliation.
The exercise was designed specifically to test internal military communications and coordination among battle staffs in the Pentagon, Tampa, where the headquarters of the Central Command is located, and in the Persian Gulf in the aftermath of an Israeli strike. But the exercise was written to assess a pressing, potential, real-world situation.
In the end, the war game reinforced to military officials the unpredictable and uncontrollable nature of a strike by Israel, and a counterstrike by Iran, the officials said.
What could go wrong?
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Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Campaign 2012, Iranian nuclear threat, Israeli attack on Iran
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:42 AM
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"General Mattis told aides that an Israeli first-strike would likely have dire consequences across the region and for United States forces there."
Dear General Mattis,
I see that you are very worried, but I don't see you expressing any concern about the Israeli civilian population that the U.S. is attempting to pin down to keep them from defending themselves.
Israel's Jewish population of more than six million Jews just exceeded the Jewish population of America. Israel also is home to more than a million citizens of other faiths, including Muslims. The world is observing America and we will write down your name, General James N. Mattis, as the regional commander, who will have allowed the next Holocaust under your watch. No, under your command. You and President Obama will be in the history books.
Yours truly,
An American
How selfish of those Jews not to die quietly.
Of course if the United States military was not on a mission to suck up to delicate Islamic sensibilities there might be fewer incentives for regional aspirants to hegemony to exploit American antipathy towards the Jewish state. But that is a tin of horse meat that can't be unflogged.
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