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2012-01-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

UK warns Iran over oil passageway threat

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Posted by Steve White 2012-01-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Iff the US can give the UK any or all of its CVNS scrapped from the USDOD budget, the Brits + NATO could use the ex-US CVNS to support any required MilOps agz Iran, as per both NavAir + Royal Marines.

FLEXIBLE ASYMETRIC/HYBRID WARFARE = FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRIC/HYBRID SOLUTIONS.

Just sayin'.

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* ION WAFF > [SPaceWar] IRAN WORKING "FLAT OUT" ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS: BRITISH MINISTER [DM Hammond].

ARTIC > DM HAMMOND = IHO IRAN IS WORKING AS FAST IT CAN, to dev NucWeaps capability + proficiency.

* NEWSMAX > LIGNET CHIEF ANALYST: NO ROOM FOR MISCALCULATION ON IRAN.

As supported by ...

* VARIOUS MILBLOGGERS > opined that
> In any US conflict agz Iran, THE COMMITTAL OF GROUND TROOPS WILL BE NECESSARY.
> AIR + LR TLCM STRIKES is likely NOT ENUFF to STOP IRAN'S NUCPROGS.
> A MASSIVE, PROTRACTIVE GROUND WAR [10-years?] between the US + Iran will be good for the interests of RISING CHINA + RUSSIA + RADICAL ISLAM [MilTerr Groups = Regional, Global Jihad].
> CHAOTIC OIL PRICE FLUXES/INSTABILITY = help Iran by inducing further bankruptcy on the already econ, debt-troubled US-NATO/EU.
> IT WILL BE HARDER FOR THE US TO FIGHT THE GWOT WID A VOLUNTEER ARMY - WID US TROOPS COMMITTED TO THE SECURITY OF AFPAK + IRAQ, A US MIL CONFLICT AGZ IRAN [North Korea? = two/multifront war?] MAY STALL OR DELAY THE ISLAMIST JIHAD, BUT LIKELY WON'T DEFEAT IT.

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Once again, 'tis the Story of ...
> A Soldier-King named Francis.
> A Valley + Battlefield called the Little Big Horn.
> An Asteroid the size of Texas.
> A Sword called EXCALIBUR [Nostradamus = Sword of Heaven + Hell].

NOSTRADAMUS = "...Until the SEVEN/SEVENTH holds the Line".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-06 19:27|| 2012-01-06 19:27|| Front Page Top

#2 FREEREPUBLIC > ROYAL NAVY SENDS ITS MIGHTIEST SHIP [HMS Daring = Anti-Air Destroyer]TO TAKE ON THE IRANIAN SHOW OF FORCE IN THE GULF.

Its a competent + complex ship, but its by itself, + UK = US = ONE SHIP, ALBEIT A GOOD ONE, DOTH NOT SUPPORT ROYAL MARINES-ARMY-SAS GROUND FORCE MAKETH???

And that not counting CHRISTINA + MERCUSOR BLOC + FALKLANDS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-06 20:43|| 2012-01-06 20:43|| Front Page Top

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