Uk military prepares for iran attack!

The Iranian army is much much larger than Britains. They are also pretty well trained and not likely to run up the white flag at the first sign of trouble. Plus of course the British army is already stretched to a maximum so it's unlikely they could pull together much of a force.

I know that Britain in it's current state couldn't do that, i'm saying that in theory if it ever came down to it, Britain would be in with a damn good shot of winning. It wouldn't/shouldn't ever happen.

I think we could mobilise far quicker than this... We would probably use a destroy everything of value to the enemy strategy and not need to expand that much any way. We could have all their infrastructure, signally, and weapony destroyed with relative ease, whilst they couldn't reach our soil.

Defo looks like theyre gearing up for war and it all depends who's side china Russia and DPRK take.

And what makes you think that Iran won't change in its current state to match how Britain changes. Your argument has too many caveats and eventualities to be in the slightest bit meaningful

But "destroying" all this is not going to mean you'd win. This was the NATO strategy in Yugoslavia, and it didn't result in NATO "winning"

In this case in a conventional war, we have the technology to beat Iran's army without even taking fire. Unless we start fighting in close quarters, I don't see how the Iranian's are going to fire back. Their armoured force is obsolete, their air force is obsolete and you could probably say most of their equipment is dated. In conventional warfare Iran's military would be very easy to destroy, however of course inside cities or urban combat is another thing. But out in the terrain which Iran has, I'm pretty damn sure the UK military would dominate, if it focused its entire force on Iran.

Not only that, we could enforce a naval blockade on Iran, take out all its oil pumping capabilities and essentially sever the army communications via the use of tomahawk missiles.

While it wouldn't be easy, the UK military certainly would not get owned if it had the full force behind it.

They aren't any where near as rich as we are?

It increases the likelyhood dramatically though

Once the forces cannot communicate, and become bands of men just fighting for the sake of it, it soon starts to unravel. An army that isn't fighting in unison is a much weaker army.

Iran just downed a U.S. drone using e-countermeasures. It uses the same stealth technology as the B2 Bomber so maybe they can bring one of those down too. Worrying stuff.

Defo looks like theyre gearing up for war and it all depends who's side china Russia and DPRK take.
It's good to see the Iranians shot down a US drone anyway!

So you are talking about a ground invasion? (here's me thinking you had the sense to drop that idea)



Even the Taliban are able to communicate with eachother with the most rudimentary technology

I do feel I am debating with people who form their military strategy from computer games

But they wouldn't win

Somebody has been playing Call of Duty 3 a bit too much.......sorry that's mean for me to say, but it was what came into my head.

Seriously. How are we going to attack Iran with a half built aircraft carrier and what's left of the army tied up in Afghanistan.

Their economy appears stable to you, but it is heavily dependent on oil. Once we have made sure they don't have the means to export it, their economy would essentially collapse. Our economy is also over 4x the size of theirs. So in terms of economic might we would stomp all over them.

By the time we hit the ground many of their men would be dead, they'd have next to no artilary to speak of, and they would be in disarray. We don't have to wipe them out to cause the army to switch sides here. By the time we had any boots on the ground, it would just be a case of sweeping in and finishing the job.

Of course the Taliban can communicate... but they are 36,000 strong and communicate infrequently between cells. If we had all of them stood against us in a conventional battle, we would win in less than 3 days, and probably lose less than 100 men. If we reduced the Iranian armies communication capabilities down to those levels, it would be much much easier because they wouldn't have very direct command from above.

You are debating with someone who specialised in military strategy in their history degree by the way.

I just don't understand. Iran, legitimately, wants nuclear weapons to be able to defend itself against aggressive powers like Israel. As soon as they attempt to have them, which is well within their rights, we shout war, war, lets fight another war, lets help America, war, lets kill, kill, kill, all the time when we are wanting to fight a war on terror. It's so stupid.

On the China vs America debate - America only have to lose a tiny tiny amount to 'lose' the war. THe people with power in America simply aren't used to any sort of suffering. Chinese people are. Also the American and Chinese economies are completely interdependent.

On the how will it effect us (in Britain), imagine 7/7 most weeks all over the country.