Here again, Hersh's article is useful. It is laden with comments that indicate that the air power intensive operation I laid out in my "Collapsing Iran" brief will be selected. For example:"The Air Force is hawking it to the other services," the former senior intelligence official said. "They're all excited by it...
"The Air Force is hawking it to the other services," the former senior intelligence official said. "They're all excited by it...
"The lesson they took from Iraq is that there should have been more troops on the ground"--an impossibility in Iran, because of the overextension of American forces in Iraq--"so the air war in Iran will be one of overwhelming force."
