Are You Ready for War...Again?

The invasion of Iran will be difficult and cost many lives. This is not a war that can be won with cruise missiles and bombs. Iran has planned their assent to nuclear power carefully. Before they began to make it known what their desires were, made sure that the fruits of their labors would be well protected.

They have just completed an entire underground command and control center in the north of Tehran, complete with all the things necessary to withstand a prolonged attack. It has been likened to an entire underground village.

They have also buried the majority of their manufacturing capacity in deep caverns under the city of Isfahan, which makes bombing them, even with deep penetration ordinance, nearly impossible.

That means that the only way to "take out" their capability, would be to do it with "boots on the ground", often the preferred method to military commanders anyway. Although not popular with civilians, troops on the ground is the only way to "win" a war, simply bombing the begeezes out of the enemy will not do the trick.

Now that they consider themselves ready to face the world, they have begun to boast about their capabilities. They have chosen to use war games this week to reveal several new missile technologies
to the world. Weather or not this is news to western intelligence we'll probably never know, as that would show our ability to gather that information. However, I suspect our intelligence knew all about them long before Iran showcased them to the world.

With the successful completion of their latest war games, they are furthering their defiance of western opinion by making this statement.

This is an extremely strong statement:

"The missile command of the Guards' naval force ... via positioning various types of surface-to-sea missiles, is able, while defending the coastlines and islands, to confront any extra-territorial invasion," the official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Safavi as saying.

It is contained in the article referenced below.

TEHRAN, Iran - A top Iranian military official said Tuesday the country can now defend itself against any invasion originating from outside the region — a clear reference to the United States — as it tested a second new radar-avoiding missile.

The new surface-to-sea missile is equipped with remote-control and searching systems, state-run television reported. It said the new missile, called Kowsar after the name of a river in paradise, was a medium-range weapon that Iran had the capability to mass-produce.

It also asserted that the Kowsar's guidance system could not be scrambled, and it had been designed to sink ships.

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If you thought the opposition of the Iraqi war was loud, wait until you hear the noise from this one. We have learned greatly from the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and we will not make the errors we did there again.

We must proceed with this war, and others to come if the loss of lives we have sustained in Afghanistan and Iraq have any meaning at all, and they certainly do mean everything. The loss of lives, American and others, is all that stands between freedom and anarchy.

As so eloquently put by an unknown to me author, "Our sons and daughters must die in war, so that others may have life and dwell in peace, happiness and freedom."

Gordon Taylor
Team Member