War Games Explore Military Options for Iran

Posted by Matt in February 7th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, War, Confrontations, Hardline, Iran, Iranian Nuclear Threat, Leadership, Military Options, Nuclear Issue, Nuclear Weapons Issue, Prospects, Regime, Serious Games, tanks, Vengeance, War Games

What if Iran’s hardline leadership emerges from the current confrontations at home strengthened and emboldened? If so, the nuclear issue will be back with a vengeance. And three recent war games focused on the Iranian nuclear weapons issue suggest that the prospects for halting the regime’s progress toward nuclear weapons are not good.
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Iran comes out on top in secret simulated war games – Times Online

Posted by Matt in December 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Afghanistan War, Enriching Uranium, Games Online, Gaza, Hamas, hezbollah, Iran Nuclear, Iranian Missiles, iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Militants, Militias, Online Security, Proxies, Security Analysts, Top Games, Top Secret, United States, War Games

Security analysts in Israel and America have warned of the potential high cost to be paid if Israel attacks Iran and say that such a strike would at best delay, rather than stamp out, Iran’s nuclear programme. The cost would be not only to Israel, whose cities are within range of Iranian missiles and which [...]

DEBKAfile – New unmanned US stealth jet based in Afghanistan gathers data in Iran

Posted by Matt in December 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military Tech, Afghanistan, Beast, Borders, China, Debkafile, Disclosure, Drone, Electronic Warfare, Exercise, Fly, India And Pakistan, Intelligence Sources, Iran Military, Missile Tests, Photograph, Recourse, Signals, Stealth, tehran, War Games

According to DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources, Washington had a reason for letting the Beast surface at this time in the form of a published photograph and a note about its ability to fly over the borders of Iran, China, India and Pakistan for collecting “useful data about missile tests, telemetry, signals and multi-spectral intelligence. [...]

Iran to hold war games to protect nuclear facilities – Yahoo! Canada News

Posted by Matt in November 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Canada Military, Canada News, Cleric, Games Yahoo, Heart, Iran Military, Islamic Republic, Missiles, News Iran, Nuclear Facilities, Nuclear News, Revolutionary Guards, Tel Aviv, War Games, Yahoo, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News

Iran’s military said it will begin large-scale air defense drills on Sunday, and a cleric in the Revolutionary Guards warned that the Islamic Republic would fire missiles at “the heart of Tel Aviv” if attacked.
Iran to hold war games to protect nuclear facilities – Yahoo! Canada News

Poland demands US troops be based on Polish soil – Telegraph

Posted by Matt in November 6th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Europe, Borders, Counterweight, Foreign Minister, invasion, Military Exercises, Nuclear Attack, Poland, Polish Soil, Russian Aggression, Russian Army, Russian War, Sikorski, Telegraph, War Games

Poland has demanded that US troops be based on Polish soil in the wake of Russian war games which simulated a nuclear attack and invasion.
Radek Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, said he was alarmed by recent military exercises conducted by the Russian army in Belarus, a country that borders Poland, and wanted the US military as [...]

The shadow behind US-Israeli war games | BBC NEWS

Posted by Matt in November 2nd, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Bbc, Bbc News, bombs, Games News, Iran News, Israel, Israeli War, Israelis, Journalists, Meuser, Middle East, Nuclear Facilities, Public Affairs Officer, Us Navy Destroyer, War Games

“We’re here for some very specific reasons, some specific threats that the Israelis are interested in, that we’re interested in. And that’s as far as I want to go down that road.”
Com Carl Meuser of the US Navy destroyer Higgins was interrupted at this point by an anxious public affairs officer. The scenario neither wanted [...]

Turkey-Israel Relations Sour Further After War-Games Snub – TIME

Posted by Matt in October 14th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Turkey, Friction, Gaza Strip, Incursion, Israel, Israel Relations, Israel War, Muslim, Palestinians Dead, Relationship, Turkey, War Games

The friction is the latest in a relationship that has been worsening since last December, when Turkey — predominantly Muslim but officially secular — condemned Israel’s incursion into the Gaza Strip that left 1,500 Palestinians dead.
Turkey-Israel Relations Sour Further After War-Games Snub – TIME

The coming war with Iran – Washington Times

Posted by Matt in October 6th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, War, Coming War, Hamas, hezbollah, Hugo Chavez, Iran, Israel, Medium Range, Middle East, Missile Tests, Missiles, Mullahs, Russia, Sphere Of Influence, Syria, tehran, Vassal, Venezuela, Vladimir Putin, War Games, Washington Times

War with Iran is now inevitable. The only question is: Will it happen sooner or later? Tehran’s recent missile tests and war games suggest that the apocalyptic mullahs have reached the same conclusion.
Iran is on the march. Their medium-range Shahab-3 and Sajjil missiles can reach Israel, the entire Middle East and parts of Europe. Tehran [...]

Russia-China war games battle extremists, separatists | csmonitor.com

Posted by Matt in July 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Russia, Afghanistan, Air Force, Blogged, China War, Countries, Flock Browser, Giants, Islamist Extremists, Muscles, Pakistan, Peace Mission, Riots In China, Russia, Sense Of Urgency, War Games, Xinjiang Province

Russia and China on Wednesday opened week-long joint war games designed to counter a hypothetical threat from Islamist extremists or ethnic separatists that both countries insist look increasingly realistic.
The coordinated land and air force exercises, dubbed “Peace Mission 2009,” is not the first time the two Eurasian giants have flexed their collective military muscles, but [...]

Pentagon War Games Predict Future Threats

Posted by Matt in June 5th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military, Armed Conflict, Army Corps, Array, Big Thinkers, Grim Place, invasion, Multinational Corporations, Nation States, National Security Threats, North-Korea, Pentagon, Private Security Forces, Refugees, Scarce Natural Resources, War Games

The military’s big thinkers plan for future needs by predicting potential security threats
By the Pentagon’s reckoning, the world in 2018 will be a grim place, with a considerable array of tricky national security threats facing the U.S. military. Multinational corporations, employing increasingly thuggish private security forces, begin to undermine the traditional power of nation-states. Countries [...]