What an interesting name the military plan for Iran has…. TIRRANT. You could be forgiven for pronouncing it as if it had a 'Y' instead of an 'I'.

There is a fair amount of detail in the New Statesman.

Here are some interesting bits:

The US army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle
plans and spent four years building bases and training for “Operation
Iranian Freedom”. Admiral Fallon, the new head of US Central Command,
has inherited computerised plans under the name TIRANNT (Theatre Iran
Near Term).

The Bush administration has made much of sending a
second aircraft carrier to the Gulf. But it is a tiny part of the
preparations. Post 9/11, the US navy can put six carriers into battle
at a month's notice. Two carriers in the region, the USS John C Stennis and the USS Dwight D Eisenhower, could quickly be joined by three more now at sea: USS Ronald Reagan, USS Harry S Truman and USS Theodore Roosevelt, as well as by USS Nimitz. Each carrier force includes hundreds of cruise missiles.

Then
there are the marines, who are not tied down fighting in Iraq. Several
marine forces are assembling, each with its own aircraft carrier. These
carrier forces can each conduct a version of the D-Day landings. They
come with landing craft, tanks, jump-jets, thousands of troops and,
yes, hundreds more cruise missiles. Their task is to destroy Iranian
forces able to attack oil tankers and to secure oilfields and
installations. They have trained for this mission since the Iranian
revolution of 1979.

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