A. Scenario 1. I am a bad guy building nuclear weapons in a hardened site 2000 feet below the Elbrus Mountains North of Tehran. As soon as I have weapon I will use it on Israel, NATO, or the United States. My hardened site can not be taken out with conventional weapons. I will use my nukes when they are a deliverable weapon.
B. Scenario 2. Obama does nothing and we are nuked.
C. Scenario 3. Our president is a patriot and tells the bad guys to give them up or we will turn that mountain into a molten radioactive hell and unfortunately most of Tehran at the same time.
Giving up any option relative to first use of nuclear weapons is insane and one must observe the Mullahs are insane. They will use them.
Question: Option B or option C? I prefer C.
We could have taken Japan with conventional forces. We would have had close to a million casualties and 1 to 2 hundred thousand deaths. Japan would have had death and casualties many times in excess of what happened from atomic weapons. They would have lost million mostly to disease and starvation. We had total supremacy of the air and would have continued to fire bomb their cities and any and all infrastructure that supported their war machine and this includes the means of food production, power, and any industry. We dropped the bomb and THEY SURRENDERED and surrendered unconditionally.
Due to all of the scenarios you have outlined, very serious career military people have to be giving some serious thought right now to the Wolf’s Lair Option.
Which is no doubt precisely why Obama has ginned up all of this racial unrest. It’s a layer of self protection. Anyone considering the option would have to factor the chaos and civil unrest into their calculations.
Japan in WWII ;ok
But how large an army does China field?
Nukes would be our chance of winning an allout war.
Wasn’t this Gen. MacArthur’s position?