Bill Lind's Nightmare Scenario

[Germ]

I wish I had time to rewrite Lind's whole scenario, but this will do:

"Iran sends two to four mech divisions across the border, and to their surprise are awaited by so many U.S. aircraft monitoring, bombing and firing cannon at their slow, lumbering vehicles that the roads become another "highway of death," with Iranian dead and vehicles littering roads for miles, great columns of smoke filling the skies, Iranian students protesting in the capital city, and the government in virtual collapse ..."

Given that US forces already struck targets in Iran, ISR assets would surely be monitoring Iranian mech units. They would be targeted by an appropriate weapons system immediately after massing for road movement. The Hog pilots will be fighting for a chance to strafe the few remaining hubcaps that roll to the Iraqi border.

[Jedburgh]

....ISR assets would surely be monitoring Iranian mech units. They would be targeted by an appropriate weapons system immediately after massing for road movement. The Hog pilots will be fighting for a chance to strafe the few remaining hubcaps that roll to the Iraqi border.

I can't believe you guys are giving Lind's tripe the amount of consideration in rebuttal that's been posted here. Look at Khafji in the early phase of Desert Storm. Consider the significant improvements across the spectrum in our capabilities since then - then consider that current Iranian mech/armor capabilities are no better than the Iraqi army at that time. If that. Game over.

Certain figures in the Iranian govt may talk smack, but they will never confront us head-on. There are other options, if it comes down to brass tacks. To paraphrase Monty Python's Village Idiot, they may be idiots, but they're not fools.

[Ken White]

Just for the Record, I think he's a Ham. Boyd is Spinney in his grave...

[sandbag]

This is more likely of a scenario.