Iran Sinks American Fleet!

Iran sinks U.S. Fleet!...
Is the U.S. about to attempt regime change in Iran?...
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Dear Reader,

It was July 2002 — almost a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The United States had just delivered terrorist-sponsoring Iran an ultimatum.

It mandated that the Ayatollah and his understrappers abandon office within 24 hours… else they confront the wrath of the new American "pre-emption doctrine."

A carrier battle group steamed into the Persian Gulf. With it, an amphibious assault force of combat-ready Marines.

The armada stabled some 20,000 sailors and Marines in all.

Yet the Iranian regime would not yield. It instead hunkered in… as if against an approaching tempest.

Iran's military boss gathered his subordinates. They mulled their options… and hatched a plan.

Pearl Harbor, the Sequel

The United States Navy entered the gulf poised to teach the Iranians a severe lesson.

Then suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, a blizzard of green blips filled the armada's radar screens.

Swarms of anti-ship missiles came zinging from all compass points — from land, from commercial vessels at sea, from low-flying airplanes that had scooted in under the radar.

How could it be?

There were no advanced indications. There were no radio communications. All the telltale indications of a pending attack were absent.

Yet there it was.

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Carnage

The fleet's crews beat to quarters and defenses leapt immediately into action. Yet the arithmetic was impossible. The American fleet was swamped by the sheer volume of incoming missilery.

As the missiles were unloading their lethal cargoes within American hulls, swarms of small Iranian speedboats barreled toward the reeling American ships.

All were laden with explosives. And all were on a one-way mission.

Nineteen ships of the United States Navy were on the bottom when the smoke cleared out.

The carrier, the escorts, the amphibious ships, were among them. Several thousand United States sailors and Marines went with them.

They Sunk My Damn Navy!

The American commander in charge of the campaign sobbed that the Iranians had "sunk my damn Navy."

"The whole thing was over in five, maybe 10 minutes," gloated his counterpart, the Iranian commander, beaming from one ear to the next.

The pre-emptors — the Americans — had themselves been pre-empted.

You say you do not recall any of the foregoing? There is one reason why you do not recall it.

That is because it never actually transpired.

It was an ingredient of Millennium Challenge '02. That was a $250 million war game running from July–August, 2002.

And the "Iranian" commander was very much an American — retired United States Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper.

Yet this Van Riper fellow knew his enemy to its very fingertips.

He understood its strengths… and its weaknesses, its vulnerabilities.

Master Strategy

Lt. Gen Van Riper negated his enemy's strengths. And he exploited his enemy's weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

That is, he conducted himself as an actual, strategizing enemy would conduct himself.

He knew the Americans excelled at electronic razzle-dazzle. Their surveillance was superexcellent — as was their electronic snooping.

And so he employed pre-modern communications to neutralize his enemy's vast advantage.

He dispatched motorcycles to relay orders. He employed light signals that ordered airplanes into the sky — not detectable radio signals.

The surface-hugging airplanes, once aloft, observed strict radio silence.

The ambush commenced shortly thereafter.

Let's Start Over — Under My Rules

Once the carnage ended, the "Iranian" Van Riper described the American mood as "an eerie silence. Like people didn't really know what to do next."

So what did the Americans do next?

They pretended that the sea-based slaughter did not happen. They simply "re-floated" the ships and ordered another go of it.

This time the Iranians were required to follow the American script. They were ordered to communicate by radio, for example. They were required to leave their radars going.

Frustrated by the straitjacket he was compelled to don, Lt. Gen. Van Riper stepped down six days into the exercise.

The Americans moaned that Van Riper was "playing out of character." "The [Iranians] would never have done what you did," they scolded him.

Just so. Yet several months before Sept. 11, 2001, some rascal proposed a war-game scenario in which terrorists flew a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon.

The powers that were rejected the scenario as ''unrealistic.''

Is the U.S. Preparing to Attempt Regime Change in Iran?

Why do I tell this cautionary tale?

The answer is because the United States is once again menacing Iran. The term "regime change" is circulating widely in Washington, D.C.

The official justification on offer is the Iranian regime's alleged nastiness towards protesters.

Reports claim that the regime has murdered thousands of them.

Snarls Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX):

It is time for a regime change. There was a red line established by President Trump. He means what he says, and he says what he means in plain English. I would not want to be one of the ayatollah's brutal henchmen mowing down and brutalizing, torturing their own people.

I am far from convinced that authentic sympathy for Iranian protesters animates regime change drummers.

Yet I let it go for now.

Trump Doesn't Speak Softly

Meantime, the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and its escorts are steaming for the region.

Her sister carrier George H.W. Bush has put out from Norfolk, likely destined for identical waters.

And the president has not been speaking softly… as he wields his big stick:

We're watching Iran. We have a big force going towards Iran…We have a lot of ships going that direction. Just in case, we have a big flotilla going in that direction, and we'll see what happens.

Indeed we will, Mr. President. Indeed we will.

Yet I hazard the Iranians are expecting a substantial American blow.

I likewise hazard they have taken aboard the lessons of 2002's Millennium Challenge naval exercise… and are preparing accordingly.

Is the United States Navy?

Brian Maher

for Freedom Financial News

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