US War Game: ’’Israeli’’ Strike on Iran Means Regional War, Hundreds US Soldiers Dead
"In the end," the report confirmed, "the war game reinforced the unpredictable nature of a strike by "Israel", as well as a counterstrike by Iran."
A classified war simulation held this month to assess the repercussions of an "Israeli" attack on Iran forecasts that the strike would lead to a wider regional war, which could draw in the United States and leave hundreds of Americans dead.
In an interview with US famous daily"New York Times", US officials stated that "the game has raised fears among top American planners that it may be impossible to preclude American involvement in any escalating confrontation with Iran."
The paper's report further revealed that the results of the war game were especially troubling to General James N. Mattis, who commands American forces in the Middle East, Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia.
"Mattis told aides, upon the conclusion of the exercise, that an "Israeli" first-strike could have dire consequences for the region and for United States US forces stationed there," the NYT added.
Well informed US officials told the paper that "the two-week war game, called Internal Look, played out a narrative in which Washington found that it was pulled into the conflict after Iranian missiles struck a Navy warship in the Persian Gulf, killing about 200 Americans."
"US then retaliated by carrying out its own strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities," the paper clarified.
Warning that "a strike could prove perilous for the United States," the US military officials informed that "the initial "Israeli" attack was assessed to have set back the Iranian nuclear program by roughly a year."
However, "the subsequent American strikes were not able to slow the Iranian nuclear program by more than an additional two years," they stressed.
According to the "New York Times", the war game has been one of Central Command's most significant planning exercises, and is carried out about twice a year to assess how the headquarters, its staff and command posts in the region would respond to various real-world situations.
Source: NYT, Edited by moqawama.org
