Cyberwarriors elevated to big leagues in US war with Iran In what may be the most public acknowledgment of its cyber operations capabilities to date, the Pentagon has admitted that cyber soldiers are playing a key role in its attacks on Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, discussed cyber operations in the same breath as traditional military domains during …
War tends to proceed according to cause and effect, not right and wrong, nor fair and unfair.
Demented Donny has already said for us to expect at least 4-5 weeks of this.
Not like he wants to go back to talking about Epstein or the children imprisoned in his immigration gulags.
That is how war works, true. The other way that war works is that, if someone isn't shooting at you and you shoot at them, then they're more likely to shoot back at you. Iran can justify their actions through the laws of war if they want. The question is whether their actions help or harm them in battle, and we've not seen too much help so far.
I thought it was operation Epstein Fury?
The IRGC operate autonomously in local areas, it isn't tribal government like Afghanistan but it is functionally the same, so not being able to get orders from up on high isn't a problem. They won't be sitting on their hands doing nothing if they don't hear from their bosses. You can kill all the junior ayatollahs and senior military leadership but that's not likely to bring you any closer to "regime change".
What they will get if they kill enough leadership is a civil war, and that will inevitably spread to neighboring countries and lead a great increase in the amount of new terrorists and terrorist sympathizers created in the Middle East. And they will all hate the US and Israel. At least Europe would be spared most of that hatred this time around since you lot have sensibly stayed well away from Trump's Epic Fail.
The IRGC are the enforcers of the ayatollahs and oversee the military. Disrupting the IRGC reduces the effectiveness of their over watch of the military and increases the chance of the overthrow of the Islamic Republic autocracy.
What would replace it is unknown, but there won't be the same influences that Iran has exerted on many of the surrounding areas when they have gone thorough similar upheavals.
The region may well become even shittier than it currently is as a result of the current offensive actions by the US and Israel, but it will be quite difficult to achieve that given the results seen so far.
The IRGC numbers the better part of a million. Without ayatollahs to lead them they would continue their repression activities in their local districts - probably be worse than they have been without any guardrails and really pissed off about the killing of their supreme leader. They would be the greatest obstacle if some non fundamentalist Islamic government was set up in Tehran, and become the Taliban/ISIS types the central goverment (or the occupiers pulling its strings) would have to fight.
Not sure where you are getting the million figure from. Iran has a population of around 90 million, with the various branches of the IRGC totalling around 250,000 - maybe the million is the number of sympathetic supporters? The numbers have been enough to keep things under the ayatollahs control, but probably not enough now if the rest of the population feels is the time for a change. The IRGC will be relentlessly hunted down during the current military actions, further diminishing its ability to be the ayatollahs enforcers.
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