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🇵🇸 The use of ‘shock and awe’ in Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan
During his time reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq, Wadah Khanfar saw the US use the same tactics of ‘shock and awe’ now used by Israel in Gaza.
Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Iraq #Afghanistan #WOT #ShockAndAwe
07/11/2023
During his time reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq, Wadah Khanfar saw the US use the same tactics of ‘shock and awe’ now used by Israel in Gaza.
Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Iraq #Afghanistan #WOT #ShockAndAwe
07/11/2023
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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 Extremely heavy strikes in #Tehran people have immediately come to the streets to shout slogans and fill the squares.
https://t.me/NoGoolag/46574
picke up here : https://t.me/NoGoolag/46633
confirmed here : https://t.me/NoGoolag/46625
@Middle_East_Spectator
#Iran #ShockAndAwe
https://t.me/NoGoolag/46574
picke up here : https://t.me/NoGoolag/46633
confirmed here : https://t.me/NoGoolag/46625
@Middle_East_Spectator
#Iran #ShockAndAwe
Concerning the unfolding #ShockAndAwe campaign in #Iran @rwapodcast draws similar conclusions posted previously today : https://t.me/NoGoolag/46574
"I think cheerleaders on both sides are being too flippant. Iran is suffering severe attrition to its conventional military forces. It's conventional navy has been wiped out (though it wouldn't have made a difference either way). Its air force is grounded or destroyed and its air defence is being degraded.
There's a good chance the US and Israel could achieve air supremacy in the coming weeks, which would make shortages in stand-off munitions meaningless, as the US could instead dip into its immense stockpiles of cheap-ish gravity bombs and such, and bomb most of Iran at will, in free hunting mode.
The US-Israel coalition could also ramp up attacks against Iranian energy and water infrastructure, potentially leading to large-scale humanitarian catastrophe. Iran is facing a long-term austere war economy situation, and it's hard to tell how long it would be able to weather that.
However.
The Iranians have succeeded at severely degrading US radar installations and missile defence in the region and interceptor stockpiles are running low. They still have deep stockpiles of missiles and drones and they are keeping the Straight of Hormuz closed, sending shockwaves through the entire global economy. The US' vassal states in the Gulf are suffering and may fall into a death spiral soon-ish (unless they push for deescalation via distancing themselves from the US).
US military bases in the area have been devastated. Air supremacy over the entire country has not been established - localized air superiority, sure, but a majority of strikes are still stand-off munitions and the eastern half of Iran remains entirely untouched so far.
The Iranians can respond to escalation by targeting infrastructure in Israel and the Gulf states, having the capability to *also* cause widespread humanitarian catastrophe. Desalination plants, electricity generation, a lot of juicy targets that remain untouched so far.
The Straight of Hormuz is closed. Trump has claimed the US Navy would reopen it, but the IRGC speedboat fleet is mostly untouched so far (the "actual" Iranian Navy you'd expect to play a role in the war) and the Iranians can potentially strike US ships going through the Strait with a variety of weapons.
According to some napkin math, even if Iran's conventional forces are truly defeated from the air, decentralized IRGC forces with localized drone stockpiles and production will retain the ability to lob several Shaheds a day at the Strait of Hormuz pretty much indefinitely.
It's a race against time on both sides with many levels of escalation still open."
#Iran #Energy #Infastructure
"I think cheerleaders on both sides are being too flippant. Iran is suffering severe attrition to its conventional military forces. It's conventional navy has been wiped out (though it wouldn't have made a difference either way). Its air force is grounded or destroyed and its air defence is being degraded.
There's a good chance the US and Israel could achieve air supremacy in the coming weeks, which would make shortages in stand-off munitions meaningless, as the US could instead dip into its immense stockpiles of cheap-ish gravity bombs and such, and bomb most of Iran at will, in free hunting mode.
The US-Israel coalition could also ramp up attacks against Iranian energy and water infrastructure, potentially leading to large-scale humanitarian catastrophe. Iran is facing a long-term austere war economy situation, and it's hard to tell how long it would be able to weather that.
However.
The Iranians have succeeded at severely degrading US radar installations and missile defence in the region and interceptor stockpiles are running low. They still have deep stockpiles of missiles and drones and they are keeping the Straight of Hormuz closed, sending shockwaves through the entire global economy. The US' vassal states in the Gulf are suffering and may fall into a death spiral soon-ish (unless they push for deescalation via distancing themselves from the US).
US military bases in the area have been devastated. Air supremacy over the entire country has not been established - localized air superiority, sure, but a majority of strikes are still stand-off munitions and the eastern half of Iran remains entirely untouched so far.
The Iranians can respond to escalation by targeting infrastructure in Israel and the Gulf states, having the capability to *also* cause widespread humanitarian catastrophe. Desalination plants, electricity generation, a lot of juicy targets that remain untouched so far.
The Straight of Hormuz is closed. Trump has claimed the US Navy would reopen it, but the IRGC speedboat fleet is mostly untouched so far (the "actual" Iranian Navy you'd expect to play a role in the war) and the Iranians can potentially strike US ships going through the Strait with a variety of weapons.
According to some napkin math, even if Iran's conventional forces are truly defeated from the air, decentralized IRGC forces with localized drone stockpiles and production will retain the ability to lob several Shaheds a day at the Strait of Hormuz pretty much indefinitely.
It's a race against time on both sides with many levels of escalation still open."
#Iran #Energy #Infastructure