| After reading some stuff on the Iran nuke program, I'm starting to think that to just bomb the Iranian nuke programs will not be enough.
At the moment I'm more tending towards a strategy that is a combination of military, civilian, political, economic measures. This would mean that on top of planning a military strike you would need to do several adittional things and have several additional things in place.
Stuff like:
- A sound financial basis for a multi decade effort
- Prepared alliances
- A pre prepared trade boycot for right after the strike at Iran's nuke program.
- Counter measures and preparations against Iranian military retaliation. (possibly through terrorism)
- For Iraq
- For the US
- For key US allies
- For key nations which are not exactly US allies
- Counter measures against Iranian economic retaliation.
- Iranian manipulation of the oil market.
- Iran threatening trade routes
- Iran striking at key economic structures
- Preperation of intelligence and covert operations
- Possible assasination of key managers/nuclear scientists
- Counter operations against smuggling of nuclear
technology/materials into Iran.
- A well developed public relations program beforehand.
- Diplomatic preparation of key nations with regard to Iran.
- A pre prepared response for other nations wanting too exploit the
situation for for instance their own nuke programs
Etc, ect.
And this is just what I can think of from the top of my head. You will need some very extensive analysis to map all this out. And even after all that succes will not be guaranteed. This will not be easy, fast nor will it cheap.
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