Round 12:Ship Stats

'Doing Iran' properly is going to reuiqre a lot, and I mean a lot, more firepower than this. Something on the order of 5-6 carrier battle groups, and at least several hundred land based aircraft will be needed (which could launch from as far away as Diego Garcia, Guam, or even the CONUS). The magnitude of this sort of deployment would be impossible to hide. So far, I am not seeing anywhere near this level of activity. As your own post mentions, there are a lot of targets to hit, and only a significant and very publically visible sign of force is going to be able to accomplish the mission.Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of cleansing Iran of its despicable regime by any means, including the 'loud' (guns and bombs) option. But I don't see anyone inside the beltway with the political wherewithal or the willpower for a war like this. It simply isn't happening.