It's getting easy to overlook the tired rhetoric and hollow tension surrounding Iran, the U.S. and Israel.
It's been months, and months since the back-and-forth began. First, Iran's shutting the Strait of Hormuz, then its saying it'd never shut the strait. Then Israel's planning a solo attack. No, they're not.
It's frustrating, but that doesn't mean the situation couldn't turn ugly at the drop of a hat.
Joby Warick at The Washington Post reports improved Iranian weapons and an enhanced plan of attack could nail the U.S. fleet parked in the Gulf, and there may be little Navy officials can do about it.
From The Post:
It's been months, and months since the back-and-forth began. First, Iran's shutting the Strait of Hormuz, then its saying it'd never shut the strait. Then Israel's planning a solo attack. No, they're not.
It's frustrating, but that doesn't mean the situation couldn't turn ugly at the drop of a hat.
Joby Warick at The Washington Post reports improved Iranian weapons and an enhanced plan of attack could nail the U.S. fleet parked in the Gulf, and there may be little Navy officials can do about it.
From The Post:
[Iran's] emerging strategy relies not
only on mobile missile launchers but also on new mini-submarines,
helicopters and hundreds of heavily armed small boats known as
fast-attack craft. These highly maneuverable small boats, some barely as
long as a subway car, have become a cornerstone of Iran’s strategy for
defending the gulf against a much larger adversary. The vessels can
rapidly deploy Iran’s estimated 2,000 anti-ship mines or mass in groups
to strike large warships from multiple sides at once, like a cloud of
wasps attacking much larger prey.
“This is the scenario that is giving
people nightmares,” said [an] official, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity in discussing strategy for defending against a possible
Iranian attack.
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