Why is Alexis Debat announcing Pentagon plans? Is this a disguised warning to Iran delivered via a messenger? Or is his information solid? Or is he delivering what seems to be news but actually was one of several hypothetical models run in military planning?
With just quotes from a speech, and without substantiation from the Pentagon or the White House, this story seems to raise questions instead of delivering news.
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.
Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.
Source: timesonline.co.uk
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