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Politico - Will the Champ refight Reagan's war with Iran
2015-05-04
[Politico] President Champ must have spent last week wondering if he'd stumbled back into the 1980s as he responded to new Iranian aggressions in the Strait of Hormuz and ordered the Navy's 5th Fleet to escort ships transiting the Persian Gulf. The headlines could have been ripped right out of Ronald Reagan's presidency, when naval engagements with Iran became all-too commonplace.

It's a chapter of history that most U.S. policymakers--and too many military officers--have long forgotten. But the Iranians certainly haven't.
That's because the ones in charge now were very involved then.
Ryan Crocker, one of America's old Middle East hands and whose first posting as a newly minted diplomat was to Khorramshahr during the days of the Shah, once explained, "For Iran, history is not the past, but the present." Just as Vietnam shaped a generation of American military officers, the Tanker War of the 1980s profoundly influenced the thinking of Iran's current military leaders; in fact, today Iran's Revolutionary Guard Navy is headed by a veteran of that war.
See?
The 1980s conflict also has influenced the Iranian military's view of any future war with the United States, and it's spent decades ensuring that it won't repeat the crippling mistakes made fighting a previous U.S. president.

Unfortunately, the Pentagon has begun listening to those lessons only recently.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Even iff the Bammer did, his Super-PC, so-called "Minimalist" Approach to FP likely will mean that US Regional Allies will bear the bulk of any burden, NOT the US, which in turn again means or infers that IRAN will achieve a large degree of success in its ventures.

Any Bammer of similarly US-led Anti-US Globalist war agz Iran will be minimalist + long ...

INTENTIONALLY!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-05-04 20:03  

#3  No.

Next question.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2015-05-04 15:33  

#2  Whahahaha, well it was a..... Politico article. You really can't expect deliberate research and facts.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-05-04 11:55  

#1  1. The Tanker War started between Iran and Iraq in 1984. Iraq was the initiator, attacking Iranian tankers and the Karg Island terminal. It was an extension of the Iran-Iraq War, which began four years earlier. BTW, there is evidence that Syria and Iran were cooperating back then as well.

2. The US didn't get involved with naval support, ostensibly for the Kuwaitis, until 1987. It was G.H.W. Bush in office then, not R. Reagan.

3. The Fifth Fleet wasn't established until 1994. Until then, units were drawn from the 2nd and 3rd Fleets and placed under the command of Commander, Middle Eastern Force.

Other than that...
Posted by: Pappy   2015-05-04 11:40  

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