Side 1
Iran- this is one country with a long history and WAS a superpower in ancient times. Unfortunately, some people tends to forget that that was in the past...
One day if the U.S.'s financial burdens overwhelm military spending we to , just like the Soviets, just like the British, just like the Romans will utilize our glory days as a selling point for political agendas. People like to relive good times, from college dropouts to prison inmates. Especially if you don't have a bright future laid out before you.
And we all know how America likes to sell things.
Iran has long been known to proclaim many things but thats what it does- proclaim. Yup, it does produce all those things that it claim, like planes and ships and vehicles, but if you look closely, those are old technologies rehashed.
Politically motivated, and showing off to other Iranian party members, just grabbing straws. Typical Amatuers.
They clam to have made improvements, but that is what they claimed, and it remains as that. To add further to the complication, they have these theologians who thinks that by saying verses from the Holy Book, things will be done according to their desire...
This isn't David Versus Golaith,
This is getting thrown out of a bar in front of your drinking buddies by a huge bouncer.
Side Two
West (I will focus on the US for this)- Many people seems to have the idea that becasue Americans are chaotic in their politics, therefore they lack willpower to carry out military activities against their adversaries. Many people like to quote Vietnam War as a failure on the American military- I will tell you now, they did not lose that war from a military standpoint. They did what they had to do, and they did exactly that. The first Gulf war showed what they really can do, and I suspect that is only a portion of what they are really capable of.
Unfortunatley for one man he unleashed his highly trained and well equipped military to run all over a continent. Then he ran it ragged and bit off a whole lot more than he could handle.
Reason being is that war entails more than the military of any given soceity, especially today.
Buying power in modern war against a uniformed adversary is king, not necessarly having the best stuff, but the money to buy the batteries.
Patience by adversaries is the biggest threat to the U.S., not direct action,
Which Iran seems to have no concept of.
Asymetrical warefare is another volume of another series however.
Hamid, there is an old saying- there is more than one way to skin a cat.
Your saying it wrong, it's pronouced "Der Iz more dan wun way of skinninz a kat"
An you cun take dat to that char bank.
Believe me, that saying is indeed true. You can take down an advesary in many ways you can imagine- the question is simple- what are you prepared to do to achieve that?
Iran is prepared, to try, not to do anything that would achieve their goals but to jump the gun and screw the pooch right out of the gates.
Thats what they are unknowingly shooting at... Once again, Amatuers.
In today's concept of defence, the static defence is no longer a viable option. As the Americans would say, you can run, but you can't hide...
Exactly, they don't have to run, nor hide. Because if they where half sane, or at least trying they would calm down, make more international partners to depend on them for resources.
Gain their support and wait for America's replacement as the world's ecnomic leader.
Once that happens you use your new freindships to help achieve by finacince a new future where Iran is on the road to be the leading player in the Middle East.
If they had the say and what on ecnomic flows in this region than I garuntee you that other players in the region would come to them for economic matters. Which is a statement in itself.
On a larger scale, this is how the U.S. undercut the Soviet Union.
America saw all those Soviet tanks and planes, knew the numbers, and knew that victory would mean the end of civilization.
Administrations from Truman onward went strait to work, because the U.S. knew time was on it's side.
So what did they do? Carefully under cut, and buy out economic channels for their economy and eventually pushed the ecnomically isolated USSR into internal turmoil.
Then almost over night, all those T 72s, and BMPs, and millions of Soviet Soldiers over the wall became irrelevant.
America's "problem" was solved, without firing a single round over the wall.
China seems to be understanding this for it's goals in East Asia.
You'd think Iran would learn about this method sooner or later as well.
Cause America can spend a whole lot, but obviously this can't go on forever.
And obviously force will become a very attractive option when they instead build nuclear facilities and launch submarines in Iran. Which both are A.K.A "military targets". All that is needed afterwards is "justification".
