OT Made to fight a superpower. Cannot fight foot people wearing sandals. It is impossible to beat the US on conventional warfare.
A monopolist capitalist economy create a might that only has big responses using the produce of its military industrial complex F-22 and Black Hawks.
The only way it is to go unconventional. A F-22 is useless against roadside bombs. (The F-35 will useless too) Or Black Hawks againts RPGs.
Bush did not do anything against Iran because the Iranians were going to engage unconventionally.
swarm the Aircraft carriers
June 5, 2007: The Iranian navy appears to be training in the use of "swarming" tactics. This involves squadrons of about a hundred small boats (20-70 feet long, moving at speeds of 70-90 kilometers an hour) approaching U.S. warships. Some 10-20 percent of the Iranian boats would be equipped with anti-ship missiles (like the 21 foot long, 1,500 pound Chinese C-802). Some smaller boats have been seen equipped with anti-tank missiles. The idea is that some of these boats would make it to the American ships, 50-100 kilometers away, and inflict some damage.
China was thought to be planning on the same tactics, but has apparently abandoned it as impractical. Iran, however, has over a thousand of these small boats, and buys more every month. The U.S. navy has been practicing, for over a decade, defending itself against such swarms. Wargame simulations indicate the swarms would lose, but you never know. Iran also has over 5,000 naval mines, a weapon that U.S. Navy wargames have shown to be much more troublesome than swarms. The Iranian preference for "swarm tactics" has a lot to do with their inability to build or buy anything much better. Moreover, all those small boats keep thousands of pro-clergy militiamen occupied, and makes for great propaganda videos. |
