Thread: Pentagon war game - U.S. would be pulled into a new war if Israel strikes Iran

Pentagon war game forecasts U.S. would be pulled into a new war if Israel strikes Iran | The Envoy - Yahoo! News

A classified Pentagon war game this month forecast that an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would likely draw the United States into a wider regional war in which hundreds of American forces could be killed, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The war games' results have "raised fears among top American planners that it may be impossible to preclude American involvement in any escalating confrontation with Iran," the Times Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker wrote.
Defense experts said the reported war games results are another attempted warning signal to Israel not to go it alone or risk harming relations with the United States.
"The apparent results of the war game reported by the Times suggest that it will be much more difficult than Israeli leaders assume to keep the United States out of the conflict," former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Colin Kahl told Yahoo News by email. "In the retaliatory spasm following an Israeli strike, the odds that Iranian actions and miscalculations could drag the United States military are substantial."
The two-week war simulation exercise—dubbed "Internal Look"—was conducted by the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla. It posited a scenario in which an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities led to Iran retaliating by striking a U.S. "Navy warship in the Persian Gulf, killing about 200 Americans," thus drawing the United States into the war, the Times' report said.
"Internal Look" is designed to "refine the command's battle rhythm and assess the staff's ability to coordinate and communicate on a modern battlefield," U.S. Central Command spokesman Col. John Robinson told Yahoo News in an email Tuesday. The classified exercises took place between Feb. 26 and March 3 at the MacDill Air Force base in Florida and at some overseas locations, he said.
But some former officials urged caution when interpreting the war games' reported results. "It's clear the administration believes an Israeli strike on Iran would be extremely problematic," Ken Pollack, a national security expert at the Brookings Institution Saban Center for Middle East studies and a former director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council, told Yahoo News in a telephone interview Tuesday. "But it is not at all clear that the game demonstrates that an Israeli strike could produce American casualties." Pollack, who has designed and directed many such war games, explained that the designers of the game could simply have created an Iranian attack on the U.S. Navy ship as a method for testing America's control system to see if it could handle it.
The report on the war games comes as Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Benny Gantz is in Washington for consultations. Meantime, the State Department's lead international Iran nuclear negotiator, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, is in Brussels Tuesday for meetings with her international counterparts to prepare for upcoming high-stakes talks with Iran over its nuclear program, a State Department official told Yahoo News Tuesday.

The New York Times reported this bullshit. The NYT is one of George Soros's media whores. Thats putting it bluntly but he has money in there.

Israel attacked Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007 and the Arabs did nothing. Israel almost got dragged in when the US attacked Iraq in the 1st gulf war.

Originally Posted by chitown

Iran retaliating by striking a U.S. "Navy warship

I'd be more concerned about Israel mounting a false flag attack. It is a well known tactic of theirs, and unfortunately you could certainly not preclude that it might be done with the knowledge and tacit consent of some within the US administration or security apparatus.

If Israel goes it alone against Iran, it's pretty obvious that Iran would do all it could not to strike US targets, so as not to give US hawks the excuse or leverage to get the US involved.

If Israel attacks Iran, then it's Israels fight and the U.S. needs to stay out of it.
They won't though as it's become increasingly obvious that the U.S. IS another Israel.
Why on earth does the U.S. government give Israel money?

Have to wonder what the pentagon is hoping to accomplish by releasing this stuff.

Originally Posted by Dan

Have to wonder what the pentagon is hoping to accomplish by releasing this stuff.

Yes,

A classified Pentagon war game this month forecast that an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would likely draw the United States into a wider regional war in which hundreds of American forces could be killed, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

Either it wasn't that classified or it's more "journalistic license" (as they prefer to call outright bullshit these days).

A couple of well placed 'Israeli' big bombs should win that war.

Originally Posted by Kurgen

A couple of well placed 'Israeli' big bombs should win that war.

I think it's past that stage, and I think I'm not alone in saying the "really big bomb" option is not one I'd prefer.

it would be nice if Iran could pre-empt Israel attacks by launching a strike in the US

like 911, they will have it coming

Originally Posted by Dan

Have to wonder what the pentagon is hoping to accomplish by releasing this stuff.

Originally Posted by chitown

Defense experts said the reported war games results are another attempted warning signal to Israel not to go it alone or risk harming relations with the United States.

Why bother doing it through the press?

Everyone knows Netanyahu has ANY US president by the balls in an election year.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why bother doing it through the press?

Everyone knows Netanyahu has ANY US president by the balls in an election year.

he has nobody by the balls.

Iran needs to be nuked, end of story.

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why bother doing it through the press?

Everyone knows Netanyahu has ANY US president by the balls in an election year.

he has nobody by the balls.

Iran needs to be nuked, end of story.

Back in your box, Socal, the grown ups are talking here.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Everyone knows Netanyahu has ANY US president by the balls

No need to add the remainder.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why bother doing it through the press?

Everyone knows Netanyahu has ANY US president by the balls in an election year.

he has nobody by the balls.

Iran needs to be nuked, end of story.

Back in your box, Socal, the grown ups are talking here.

I meant attacked. Netanyahu doesn't fuck around

Netanyahu joined the Israeli Defense Forces during the 1967 Six-Day War, and became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit. He took part in many missions, including Operation Gift and Operation Isotope, during which he was shot in the shoulder. He fought on the front lines in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, taking part in special forces raids along the Suez Canal, and then leading a commando assault deep into Syrian territory.[1] He achieved the rank of captain

Nethanyahu will do more damage to Israel than the Palestinians could ever dream to. And a lot of Israelis would agree with me.

^^ Sounds like he has been a terrorist all his life.

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why bother doing it through the press?

Everyone knows Netanyahu has ANY US president by the balls in an election year.

he has nobody by the balls.

Iran needs to be nuked, end of story.

...then Israel, Saudi, USA, Russia, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Vietnam, Phillippines, Thailand, Korea, Japan, and fuck it, let's throw in the Argies to try and get the message through. ^_^

Netanyahu is an ignorant cock. Putting this sort of story out can only be about constructing a narrative pretext to more remote weapon systems testing on raghead cavemen.

Netanyahu is a nutter, probably schizophrenic like most right wing conservatives with a God mission

Originally Posted by pickel

Nethanyahu will do more damage to Israel than the Palestinians could ever dream to. And a lot of Israelis would agree with me.

Its a democracy

Netanyahu is exactly what Israel needs.

What would Israel do if Iran went nuclear and told the Israelis that they want to go back to the 67 borders ?

with their hand over the button ?

Originally Posted by Butterfly

it would be nice if Iran could pre-empt Israel attacks by launching a strike in the US

like 911, they will have it coming

That is a bit of sick. Thank you for continental european vote.