Musharraf is now derided as a coward for making that choice but I for one, am thankful, since I did not want to grow up in a country bombed to rubble by the US. Have we forgotten this was the country that suffered tens of thousands of casualties just to avenge Pearl Harbor? Which was a minimal casualty event compared to the battles of Iwo Jima and so on? I’m sure we seem to have a collective amnesia about 9/11 at this point, but honestly the Americans were quite OK back then with Pakistan going down in a flood of fire from American bombings (conventional and otherwise) if we refused to cooperate back then and if a few Indian/Israeli cities were the cost to pay, so be it. Such was the case after 9/11 which is why Musharraf acceded to American demands to cooperate against the Taliban or else be bombed back to the stone age. The only time such a strategy wouldn’t work is when an American willingness to accept blood losses is to such an extent that they wouldn’t care if the Pak-Mil nuked Tel Aviv or New Delhi. But the cost of defeat would be much higher to America and its allies. Pakistan would still be defeated if it exercised this option. The only thing ensuring their survival is holding American allied states or friendly states hostage with WMDs. The logic was quite simple: The Pakistani military has 0 chance of holding off the American military in open conflict. “Sadda kee kasoor he?” - India probably (What is our fault here?) “We will have to nuke India and Israel” was his reply. Carrier battle group full#I recall a Pakistani general being interviewed and asked what the plan of the Pakistani military was if the US decided to conduct combat operations on Pakistani soil unilaterally in pursuit of militants and it escalated to full blown war. Oh and by the way: It is widely theorized that the Nimitz Class aircraft carriers, which are a generation old by now, were considered unsinkable by any conventional explosive and could only have been sunk by tactical or strategic nuclear weapons.īack in the late 2000s during the Kayani period Pakistan had some very close encounters with the American military as both American generals and a more right wing Pakistani general staff going head to head with each other over tense incidents like Salala and a resurgent Haqqani group hitting military targets in Afghanistan. The Chinese have currently inherited this struggle and are making enormous investments into space based surveillance for the sole purpose of being able to just find out where the heck the American carrier is so they can launch missiles at it.īecause ‘thousands of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles’ don’t really mean much if you’re just hoping to spray and pray them all over the pacific ocean like Rambo firing his machine gun at the viet cong. The USSR at the height of its power and military technology had entire constellations of satellites in orbit around the earth for the sole purpose of just finding out where a Carrier battle group was so it could be targeted with Tu-22 or Tu-26 bombers and even they couldn’t locate American carrier groups as easily as one might think. Let me rephrase the question to something that makes more sense militarily: Can the Iranians even FIND an American carrier battle group let alone scratch its paint? The Chinese have invested billions into high tech weaponry and even they aren’t sure if they can completely decimate an American carrier battle group with hundreds of carrier killer missiles, satellites, recon plans, attack boats, submarines and naval bombers and a $100 billion + military budget that has funded far more high tech weapons than Iran can even dream of. And even if they did, is the war going to be some kind of gentleman’s cricket match where the US cordially tells all their other battle groups to politely let the Middle Eastern fleet have a one-on-one gentlemanly duel with the Iranian military while the other fleets quietly observe from afar? Iran has no chance at all of sinking an American carrier battle group. I cant believe that I have to say this, as a Pakistani dude, about the United states military but I am really surprised at how one sided this discussion is. Could Iran really sink an American carrier battle group ?
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