Iran Strategies 4: the Joint-Strike Attack
This is a modification of Iran Strategies 0: Re-examining the "Default Assault". The first four Iran Strategies (in order of posting) were:
1. Iran Strategies 1: the Guillotine Gambit
2. Iran Strategies 2: Beachhead Bingo, and
3. Iran Strategies 0: Re-examining the "Default Assault"
4. Iran Strategies 3: the Econostrike
In Iran Strategies 0, we discussed "an all-out attack on all known and suspected nuclear sites, in an effort to utterly destroy Iran's entire nuclear program." Iran Strategies 4 is an "add-on" to this approach.
We start with the premise that Iran will surely retaliate for any strike on them (of any magnitude) with everything they have. Fortunately, they don't have much... not yet; the longer we dither, the more they will have available to strike back. Therefore, we must preemptively take out their retaliatory capability at the same time we take out their nuclear sites.
[Read on here.]