Idiosynchronic – who posts at some of the most interesting places - has a short piece up at Progressive Historians.
What's a Redline Event and Will It Be Justification?
For those with limited imagination, a “red-line event” is a case of having the “double dog dare ya to step over that line” challenge met.
. . all the military analysis I've read indicates that Iran has a fair number of cruise missiles salted away in a fairly wide-ranging tunnel/cave system along their coast.These papers also imply that Iran's stock of missiles is fairly effective vs. current defensive systems. It seems like they could release a sufficient quantity of munitions to damage, possibly even sink a carrier.
My recollection is fuzzy, but isn't sinking a carrier one of our redlines for nuclear release?
You should probably go read Idiosynchronic’s discussion of this possibility.
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Someone in the Navy should look at a map and see what's on the east side of the gulf. There's good reason why it's called the 'Persian' Gulf.
This was the introduction page Idio had at our site for Progressive Historians.
Gordon, you might be right, but I'm sure our tactical and operational planners have considered the facts you point out. As was mentioned in the original post, these facts might well have been considered in the planning, as hard as that is to believe.
As I said, SoS, Idio posts in some pretty interesting places.
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