Israeli intelligence officials have assessed that the US only has enough firepower in the Middle East to carry out four or five days of intense airstrikes on Iran, according to a report in the UK’s Financial Times on Tuesday.
The assessment comes despite the fact that the US has deployed the most firepower in the region since the 2003 Iraq invasion.
According to an Israeli intelligence source quoted in the report, the US could sustain a week of “lower-intensity strikes.”
The report added that Israeli security officials are concerned that if the US carries out only limited strikes on the Islamic Republic, it would escalate the regional tension by provoking the regime.
The warning comes after reports published in US media that the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, has warned President Donald Trump against a war with Iran due to concerns that it will drag the US into an extended regional confrontation and leave the US army depleted of air defense munitions. Trump later denied the reports, saying that Caine believes that the US could easily win a war with Iran.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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When one changes his mind, it usually means he changes his own mind. With the current POTUS, he changes other people’s minds.
This is nonsense. Israel was able to last twelve days. You think America with its fire power cant last. Give me a break.
China and Russia are watching this thing, in regards to China the inviting country would be Japan and that’s probably what is in Japan interest, some of it has to do with USA strategy, how far the planes can fly and with what missiles etc. Russia is looking for economic class and that includes weapon sales, but the usa inviting country in the e.u. is Germany and that’s an old bitter story, so Iran is a BRICS
These reports from foreign sources are probably not accurate.
I believe the video reports on the Israel Defense and Security Forum youtube channel contain much accurate information.
It seems that Israeli General Avivi believes a conflict with Iran could last for several weeks.
The US military most likely has prepared for such a scenario.