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Iran Super Thread- Merged

So obviously the gut feeling of the president, who has f... all knowledge of the situation is a much better source of
With the resources available to the US intelligence and military and the Israeli military and intelligence kicking in what they know, I'm pretty confident Trump knows more about the situation than anyone here.
 
Lack (or at least apparent lack) of Iranian WMD efforts in the 2003 to 2008 frame may have been influenced by what was going on next door and how keen the US administration of the day was to choose "military intervention" from its list of options. I have no notion that any far-reaching conclusions about Iran's long-term goal can be drawn.

A long count of years has passed since then.
 
With the resources available to the US intelligence and military and the Israeli military and intelligence kicking in what they know, I'm pretty confident Trump knows more about the situation than anyone here.
I tend to doubt that, mainly as due to the systemic purging of our intelligence and military. It has been reported again and again that a lot of actual intelligence is gutted before it arrives to be viewed by POTUS or the SecDef (until Department of War gets accreditation by Congress it is still DoD).
 
I tend to doubt that, mainly as due to the systemic purging of our intelligence and military. It has been reported again and again that a lot of actual intelligence is gutted before it arrives to be viewed by POTUS or the SecDef (until Department of War gets accreditation by Congress it is still DoD).
I would also suspect that in cases where a range of assessments of varying probability exist, it’s probably in the best interest of officials to present the official assessment most in line with what they expect the administration want to hear. Pulling, perhaps, from closer to the edge of the bell curves rather than the middle.
 
Well the Guardian is reporting that Saudi Arabia may be positioning ground forces for an attack into Yemen.


This should be interesting.

Hopefully they'll put flowers down the barrels of the guns on those 'Heavy Assault Vehicles' they got from Canada ;)

 
I tend to doubt that, mainly as due to the systemic purging of our intelligence and military. It has been reported again and again that a lot of actual intelligence is gutted before it arrives to be viewed by POTUS or the SecDef (until Department of War gets accreditation by Congress it is still DoD).
So you saying this forum has better intelligence than the US?
Reported by who? Verified sources or the Washington Post? I'm not going to speculate on rumours, second hand info or WAGs on who or what is stripped from the files before it goes into a SCIF.
We have zero idea on what has been briefed. I'm not saying that we can't speculate or war game it based on what we've read or heard, but to say the POTUS doesn’t have a clue of the situation is a ridiculous assertion.
 
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