Sunday Times: “The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert. Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for ‘pinprick strikes’ against Iran’s nuclear facilities. ‘They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,’ he said.”
Category / War
…and now, the end is near…
…and so we face the final curtain, ha ha ha…
Thanks, Ed, for having us over. Send my people the clean-up bill.
Everyone else: Have a nice Memorial Day weekend, take a moment to remember the military dead, and why and how they got that way, and for what.
Antoine Wilson out.
Today in Killer Robot Warfare
The Register: “‘Team Warrior’, a killer robot manufacturing alliance led by General Atomics of San Diego, CA, announced yesterday that its Warrior Extended Range/Multi Purpose Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (ERMP UAS) would enter production for the US Army, another step in the US forces’ ongoing effort to automate most military activities….The Warrior will carry a relatively limited weapons payload, typically a quartet of Hellfire II missiles. It will be able to destroy no more than four tanks or buildings before reloading. However, its new General Atomics stablemate, the evocatively-named MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ can manage up to a tonne and a half of varied ordnance, or as many as 14 Hellfires.”
An Important Segue
655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war. 655,000. That’s more than the 400,000 who died at the Battle of Changping. That’s more than twelve times the number of casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg. And it’s getting extremely close to Great Purge levels. And we are responsible. (via Sans Serif)
Other NIE Conclusions: The White House is Located at 1600 Penn
Washington Post: “The conclusion of U.S. intelligence analysts that the Iraq war has increased the threat from terrorism is only ‘a fraction of judgments’ in a newly disclosed National Intelligence Estimate, Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte said yesterday.”
Y’think?