Saturday The country of Iran.

 Picture of the day:

This is a fair shot of Tehran, greater Tehran is over 13 million citizens:

Today’s stuff just facts and statistics:

In reference to the Mediterranean area of the world.

 Sherry has been to Jordan and Israel; not far

 from Iran. I was in France, Spain, Crete, Turkey,

 Greece, Italy and Sicily other countries of the

 Mediterranean. Together Sherry & I made Germany,

 Belgium  and Switzerland.

Since this undeclared war with Iran,

 I had assumed it was about the size of Maine

 and also sort of a backward country.

However this is IRAN also:

I prefer to know something of the areas our military is

 sent to. You can be very surprised when your mind is

 not broad enough. As a Marine with NATO forces I

 spent a few weeks in the back country of Turkey. My

 impressions: it was a backward country, I was 17

 years old. I was shocked later when I saw Istanbul,

 it’s size and how modern it was. I was overwhelmed.

I am interested in Iran. Hey, it is 2 ½ times the size

 of Texas. 

dark green is Iran size it covers most of our Mid West

Does that surprise you? It did me. There are

 5 other cities over a million in population one of them

 over 3 million. Iran population approx 86 million.

Their army? Quads force, 90,000 elite troops. Special

 Forces 125,000 troops. Combat ready army? 600,000

 That is a total of 815,000 troops.

This is not a backwards country. Now I am told this is NOT Vietnam! and it is not.  BUT who knows?

Look back at the Vietnam statistics:

North Vietnam had an army of approx 480,000 . The

 French fought there for about 8 years lost 55,000

 French soldiers and pulled out without winning. USA

 followed them. After nine combat years we pulled out

 without winning, losing 58000+ good men and women.

I pray that this ‘WAR’ has been thought thru and has

 an objective for an ending.  I am praying we do not go

 Boots on the ground.

Nite Shipslog

PS:

This is not an obsession with me, But I read

 where our president said that  the USA will

 flatten Iran if they do not surrender

 unconditionally. WE have had too many WARS

 that brought the USA NOTHING but PAIN!

Now Iran is 2.5 times the size of Texas, FOR

 EXAMPLE Just THINK how hard it would be to 'wipe

 out' a country that size. count the cost in soldiers,

 missiles and  bombs at 1-2 million  dollars a minute.

 But wait, it will

 be faster with nuclear weapons. Are they there

 already, you can bet you bippy they are.  Every

 carrier and sub of the USA carries them I and many

 sailors have loaded them aboard. 

Our president just said this week, quote " I can

 end this war in  2  seconds." That is a REAL

 scary  option.