Military strategy in Iraq
 

What are the plans? Or, what do you think the plans will be? Don't joke around here, this is a serious discussion. mwah:

I'd say punishing bombardment and surgical air strikes against key military targets would be the first order of business. Cruise missile strikes from the fleet in the Gulf are a certainty.

You needn't worry...they will pound the beejeezus out of them before sending in ground forces.

That's my guess, anyway.


Zone

You are probably correct. Except unfortantly. Saddam is ruthless those key milatary targets will have more civilians in them than soldiers.

nuke'em all.

Good answer.... you are obviously one of those compassionate conservitives.

soften up their SAM sites first using F/A-18s, F-16s and F-117s, then attack tanks using F/A-18s, F-16s- F-15s and A-10s while the B-52s and B-1s work on military installations. add some AH-64s to the tank fray. then send in the M1A2s and the troops.

1000 or so cruise missles then the aircraft then ground troops. I wouldnt wanna be livin there!
mb

What if he uses bio and chemical weapons? The ones he supposedly doesn't have?

then he's fucked and maybe the rest of the world will suddenly care, except maybe france

[quote="Sun Flower Boy":f9e54]What if he uses bio and chemical weapons? The ones he supposedly doesn't have?[/quote:f9e54]
If he does have them he will use them,.,, on anyone that he can reach with them, including is own people. But of course, our threating to use nuclear weapons if he does is different, because we aren't madmen.

Ok..say Iraq launches a scud filled with anthrax into an Isaeli city. Tel-Aviv. Israel has said they would nuke him if he does that...how will the US retaliate to a bio/chem/nuclear attack on our troops?

Sending troops in would be the right thing so not very many civilians die, but more americans would dye so i say the send some cruise missles to military targets like zoner said

cruise missiles aren't very useful when you put military installations right next to civilian housing, same with putting SAM sites next to mosques so HARM missiles will slam into them

They should fly a huge blimp over Iraq that's painted up like a giant tit. The Iraqis will become transfixed on it..."Looka the tit, looka the TIT! The TIT!" *bow*

Denis Leary rawks!


Zone

what makes you so sure they know what a tit looks like?

maybe a banana, now THAT will be effective

heh heh heh

Well, at least the tit would be morale-boosting for the coalition forces. biggrin:


Zone

Better yet, dress a woman reporter up as the Chiqiuta Banana lady.

The US And Canada and maybe Britian are out of range of Saddam's nukes. (If he has any) They dont have the technology to do that.

Where the hell did Iraq nuking North America come into this discussion?

Hmmm, first the most massive naval and air based bombardment in recent history, Drop a few divisions of airborne troops northeast of Baghdad, get armour to attack the south west from Saudi Arabia, an amphbious landing to take place in southern Iraq and Kuwait, and more ground troops and armour to spearhead northern Iraq from southern Turkey. That should get them Iraqius royally clusterfucked.

No, this is what should be done. Assemble a team of the worlds finest assault team and let them infultrate Baghdad and take out Saddam and his cohorts. Next step would be to invade and neutralize so a different government could be set up. Essentially what the forces would be doing, is to "Liberate" Iraq and to set it on a stable track.

i heard they where gonna use about 300 -400 tomahawks a day the first few days of the "war" . That should shell-shock the hell out of them and drive their urge to fight right into the ground . then we hit them with ground troops.

Or better yet, turn his cohorts against him.

[quote="Sun Flower Boy":5dcbc]What if he uses bio and chemical weapons? The ones he supposedly doesn't have?[/quote:5dcbc]

If he does, the US and Britian will retaliate with Nuclear weapons......and no, thats not speculation. They will be low yield, probably deployed by Cruise Missles. Ofcourse if this happens, Australia's support for any war will be ultimately gone.

All he really needs is a little more time and funding and he could have a weapons launch platform capable of striking the United States, Canada, Britain, maybe even Australia. This is why the US is pushing the UN to do something instead of sitting around with their thumbs up their asses waiting for something to happen. The UN has been pathetically ignorant as far as Iraq and many other Arab states are concerned.

From what i've peaced together from interviews, conjecture and hear say. Is that the military is acctually going to be agressive in this campaign. The land assault will acompany the air war to take key targets. Such as the oil fields, to keep Sadaam from burning them again. It is slated to take up to two weeks to complete the campaign, a far cry from the 100 hours of the past conflict.

Sadaam's sons threat against the american people with September 11th style attacks only seemed to piss people off. The use of these tactics would only be suicide for Iraq. Especially if chemical or nuclear weapons are involved. US nuclear policy allows for retalitory nuclear weapons use. Meaning use them on the US and we send more, bigger ones your way.

Overall Sadaam stands a snow balls chance in hell of winning or even staying in power.

worlds finest assault team??. whos votes for that ?? ... just bomb the hell out his soldiers and they walk away. look what happened last time .. they gave up in days .

Saddam is virtually controlling the whole country by himself, so therefore the governemnt is crumbling apart.....

1) Airstrike to take out his military facilites

2) Ground troops / Armor to be sent into the cities to clear them out.