In the US Navy Monthly ["Proceedings"] ... and Amir Oren in Haaretz, here
"....This unpredictable adversary (Iran) could be provoked by an isolated, and perhaps seemingly unimportant, event. Deploying land-based defensive assets is a necessary option, but it is costly and time-consuming....
Iran's regime is not about to fall, so the media are recycling already-familiar details about Israeli and American intentions to take action against it, while adding a little color of their own. The real news is swallowed up in the melee. One such bit of news, largely ignored, was provided at a June 10 briefing to Pentagon correspondents, given on a U.S. Air Force plane en route to Washington.
The person giving the briefing was Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is opposed to a U.S. attack on Iran. Under the guise of making a formal announcement, Gates stated that he had asked a group of advisers - retired generals and respectable civilians with high security clearance - to prepare updated files to assist in the transition in about 200 days from the administration of George W. Bush to that of his successor: John McCain or Barack Obama...."
The person giving the briefing was Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who is opposed to a U.S. attack on Iran. Under the guise of making a formal announcement, Gates stated that he had asked a group of advisers - retired generals and respectable civilians with high security clearance - to prepare updated files to assist in the transition in about 200 days from the administration of George W. Bush to that of his successor: John McCain or Barack Obama...."
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