Iran vs. the West

Comments

One response to “Iran vs. the West”

1. 

   July 14, 2008

   haluk

   “Israel cannot mobilize its entire army in order to dispatch it to fight a ground war in Iran, in line with Allon’s doctrine of a preemptive first strike. Likewises, the [Israeli] Airforce is not capable of devastating Tehran significantly by means of merely conventional air raids. After all, this several millions-big city withstood Iraqi air raids during the eight-years long war, without any anti-air defenses to speak of. To remember is also the fact that Israel found no real answer to grievous blows dealt by the Iraqi Scuds during the Gulf War.

   “… against its faraway enemies Israel will have to rely not so much on the conventional components of the Israeli army, as on other components of its national security: namely on nuclear deterrence, long-range missiles and improved cooperation with the U.S. and some neighboring states, like Egypt or Turkey.”
   –Prof. Shlomo Aharonson

   Source: Ha’olam Haze, 21 April 1993