Pentagon ‘Three-Day Blitz’ Plan for Iran

[Reboot]

Pentagon 'Three-Day Blitz' Plan for Iran

The Sunday Times | September 2, 2007

The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians' military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for "pinprick strikes" against Iran's nuclear facilities. "They're about taking out the entire Iranian military," he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: "Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same." It was, he added, a "very legitimate strategic calculus".

President George Bush intensified the rhetoric against Iran last week, accusing Tehran of putting the Middle East "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust". He warned that the US and its allies would confront Iran "before it is too late".

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[Guest]

I wonder if Iran has the Sunburn missile? A three minute "blitz" on aircraft carriers would even the score.

[operationska]

Just googled the Sunburn missile:nuts:

[CharlesCopeland]

Looks like the whole scenario just took a major turn for the worse. Check out what FOX News just posted minutes ago.

Now it appears the White House is going "all-in" for a bombing campaign scheduled to last at least a week. This is starting to have the feel of an entire global community against the U.S.

U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296450,00.html

WASHINGTON — A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday.

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