Iran Got An Ominous Message

Long ago in the U.S. Navy, I learned the value of using psychology in war. Sometimes, you can score a victory by frightening an enemy rather than killing him or her. If you were off the coast of North Vietnam riding a U.S. Navy jet or patrol boat, your worst nightmare was for a North Vietnamese radar to get "a radar lock" on you. What followed at lightning speed was a SAM missile or artillery shell coming at you with devastating results. You had a few precious seconds to take evasive action. The military radar detectors provided did not work well. Every pilot and patrol boat driver used an illegal radar detector used by drivers in the US who loved to drive fast and evade law enforcement detection. Such devices have the nickname of "fuzz busters." They worked quite well. We would sometimes play games with our radar. At moments when we did not intend to attack an enemy or were out of range to do it, we would turn on our radar. The North Vietnamese on the other end would rapidly know we had "a radar lock" on them. It scared them, to say the least. More details have come out about the Israeli attack on Iran yesterday. The Israeli Air Force officers who planned this attack were ingenious and very creative. They used a home-produced stand-off missile called The Sparrow. It was launched from an aircraft far away from Iran. Pilots and expensive aircraft were never at risk. The missiles launched had small warheads. The potential for serious casualties was avoided. The missiles had precision guidance systems. Iran has a weak and obsolete air defense system. The object of the attack was to knock out Iranian air defense radars. Once the radars are knocked out, Israel could launch massive air attacks with impunity. What Israel did was to scare Iran. The message was sent that Israel could launch massive air attacks after knocking out air defense radars. Israel accomplished its objective. Iran got an ominous message.