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No, I am not overestimating ourselves.Well , you are determined to fool yourself ... If war happen , no matter how strong you are ( which i believe you are overstimulated your country ) , we will make sure if we are going to fell , then we usa take down usa with us ....
In best case you will have a pyhric victory
What is the difference between 'war' and 'warfare'?
A 'war' is a high level description of the state of attitudes between two or more countries.
On the other hand, 'warfare' is the lower level description of the plans, tactics, methods, and tools used to accomplish very specific goals. Hence, the word 'fare': perform in a specified way in a particular situation or over a particular period of time.
In warfare, the offense invariably have the most flexibility in movements, especially with maneuver warfare, and in that, the offense sets the tempo of the conflict. Airpower offers the offense the highest level of flexibility and greatest amount of maneuver options. Contrary to popular belief, a siege does not limit those options, and a siege is essentially what will be the nature of a shooting fight between the US and Iran. Missiles are not offensive weapons but they are defensive.
A flight of fighter-bombers can change assignments en route but missiles cannot. When it comes to airpower -- application of force in and from the third dimension -- a siege works in favor of the side that have the greater air assets, and in this case, it is the US, not Iran. A siege concentrates viable targets, so what actually happens is that the side with the greater airpower -- US -- do not have to expend energies and resources to hunt, locate, and assign targets, like we had to with the mobile SCUD launchers back in Desert Storm. The SCUD mission was a complete failure from conception but it was a necessary political act. Personnel from the 56th supports the 388th in the SCUD hunt missions and I remembers that well.
We learned from Desert Storm. We will not be distracted by Iranian missiles targeting US bases in the region or Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz. The world's economies will not collapse from Iranian control of the Strait. There will be some reflexes from some market indexes, but no one will collapse. Countries that buys oil from ME sources always have alternates because they know how volatile the region is. US output can and WILL compensate. You can point out increase price per barrel but that is not a 'collapse'. Iran will not be able to hold the Strait for long and the markets knows it.
If there is a war between US and Iran, when it is over, the Iranian Air Force and Navy will cease to exist, or at best lives as annoyances. The Strait will reopen but this time, regional powers will be confident that the threat to close that waterway is semi-permanently gone. Iran will lose in the long run.