I don't think the U.S. plans on invading Iran. Airstrikes would be all that is needed.
Theres no plans other then the War Game Plans that have pretty well done for ever possible situation that might ever take place. This is just a for fun what if.
Iran already has a missile armament capable of wreaking havoc, but its air, sea, and ground forces are out of date and badly in need of maintenance, according to a survey of websites devoted to military topics.
Jane’s Defense Weekly offers this overall assessment of Iran’s military:
"Iran’s armed forces are limited, despite their size, by a very poor maintenance record caused by lack of spare parts and very poor training, There is little doubt that, at the moment, Iran is not capable of presenting any credible external threat and conventional force projection is almost certainly limited to within its own borders."
GlobalFirepower, a military statistics website, which cites the CIA as one of its sources, ranks Iran 18th in military power worldwide behind Turkey (10), Israel (11), Pakistan (15), and Egypt (17) but ahead of Saudi Arabia (24), Iraq (37), Afghanistan (40),and Lebanon (42).
According to this site, Iran’s defense budget was $6,300,000,000 and it currently has 540,000 active military personnel.
I doubt if Irans missiles are any more dangerous then Saddams WMD.
I dont think people understand the power an force multiplier of smart bombs. Once Irans Air Power weapons like this would come into play.
CBU-105, is seeing its first action ever in combat, and according to the U.S. Air Force, it is especially deadly.
"It's a fearsome weapon," said John Pike, the head of globalsecurity.org and an ABC NEWS consultant. "If an armored convoy is moving down a road, an attack by this cluster bomb unit would basically stop that armored assault in its tracks."
Dividing and Dividing Again
As the bomb falls, it splits open in midair — and releases 10 smaller units, each of which descends under a small white parachute.
As they approach the ground, those units split as well, each one ejecting four armor-piercing explosives. The result, say sources: one bomb drop causes 40 explosions, spread out over 15 acres or more.
The CBU-105 is a heat-seeking weapon. Its sensors look for engines of tanks, personnel carriers and other sources of high temperature. As the bombs descend, they can be steered by small fins, to get closer to their targets, and to counteract the force of the wind. The bombs are less sophisticated than weapons guided by satellites or lasers, but analysts say they can do a lot more damage.
"With a cluster bomb like this," says Pike, "a single B-52 can destroy an entire armored division, whereas in the past you had to send out dozens of airplanes that might have to drop hundreds of bombs to achieve the same effect."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=97677&page=1
