TEHRAN — Iran, apparently anticipating an American invasion, has quietly been restructuring its military and testing a new military doctrine that calls for a decentralized, Iraqi-style guerrilla campaign against an invading force. Iran's military planners are acutely aware that a military confrontation with technologically more advanced U.S. armed forces would be rapid and multifronted ! U.S. alerts the world of the coming war: Recently U.S. officials have been traveling far and wide in order to bring other countries up to speed regarding the coming WAR against Iran!'[The German press agency] DDP also reported that the governments of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman and Pakistan have been informed in recent weeks of Washington's military plans'!!!!!!Iran’s military plans for invasion by U.S.!!!

1) Superior Iranian forces claim the Americans strayed inside Iranian territory, and surround the Marines. They refuse to surrender and open fire. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards (which the US Senate branded an “international terrorist group”) return fire. Helicopter gunships are called in and artillery fire is directed at Iranian military targets. Bush calls it an act of war and, in an emotional speech to the nation, orders U.S. forces into action.

2) The rest of the scenario has a plausible ring. The U.N. Security Council votes 17-1 (U.S. veto) urging restraint. In the U.N. General Assembly, only the United States, Israel, Micronesia and Costa Rica support Bush’s decision!
3) Overwhelming U.S. air and naval superiority destroy Iran’s principal air, naval and army bases. Revolutionary Guard facilities are obliterated, as are known nuclear research and development sites. Population centers are avoided, though smart weapons destroy communications centers and command-and-control facilities. But there are still large numbers of civilian casualties and widespread radioactive contamination as many targeted sites are in or near population centers! 4) The U.S. media, which had (by and large) backed the administration’s plans to engage Iran, rallies round the flag, praising the surgical strikes designed to cripple Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
5) No sooner do the Pentagon and the White House call the attacks a complete success than Iran strikes back. With five years to prepare, Iran has successfully hidden and hardened many of its military and nuclear facilities, a large percentage of which are undamaged!
6) The aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower operating in the Gulf is hit by a Chinese Silkworm cruise missile. Three other support vessels are also hit and are severely damaged when they are attacked by small craft manned by suicide bombers. Pro-Iranian riots break out in Beirut. Lebanese soldiers open fire at the crowds. In the south of Lebanon, Hezbollah fires salvos of rockets into Israel. The Israeli air force responds by bombing Lebanon and Syria. Iranian Shahab-3 missiles also strike Israel, killing a number of civilians. The Israel Defense Forces is mobilized. Syria and Lebanon also mobilize!
7) Rioters in Baghdad attack U.S. troops. Insurgency mortar shells hit the U.S. Embassy. Snipers target American soldiers all over Iraq. Shiite oil workers sabotage Saudi Arabia’s eastern oil fields. Hundreds of alleged saboteurs are shot dead by Saudi security forces. An oil tanker hits a mine in the Strait of Hormuz. Oil tops $200 a barrel. Wall Street suffers its biggest loss in 20 years. The Dow plummets more than 800 points!
8) The United States offers Iran a cease-fire. Iran rejects it. Tehran orders the assassination of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf flees to Dubai. Pakistan’s tribal areas that shelter Osama bin Laden declare their independence. U.S. troops fight their way out of Baghdad with heavy casualties. Rioters in Basra cut the main roads to Kuwait that supply U.S. forces !
9) And it’s downhill from there. Anti-U.S. Pakistani forces seize control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. NATO’s European forces in Afghanistan disengage from what they say is now a civil war. Taliban reconquers Kabul. The Shiite Afghan north and Mazar-i-Sharif secede to join Iran. Waves of Iranian troops cross into Iraq where they are greeted by Iraqi militias. Shiite clerics take over the government in Baghdad. U.S. troops fight their way back into their bases. A Hezbollah-led coalition takes over in Beirut. Iranian Silkworm missiles set Saudi Arabia’s eastern oil fields ablaze. The Saudi monarchy declares its neutrality and pledges not to assist the United States. Kuwait and Egypt follow suit !
10) In Bahrain, rampaging Shiite crowds depose “King” Sheik Khalifa, establish an Islamic Republic and demand the U.S. 5th Fleet dismantle its headquarters and go home. The Dow Jones loses another 1,000 points. China and Russia refuse U.S. requests for mediation. Suicide bombers attack London, Washington, New York and Los Angeles. Poorly planned. Few casualties, but panic sets in. The White House tells Iran’s theocracy to cease and desist or nukes will be used on select targets. Tehran refuses!
11) Israel is shelled from Lebanon and Syria. Rioting rocks the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas flees to Cairo. The United States drops a neutron-type bomb on Iran’s nuclear center at Natanz, already bombed and destroyed. Defiant Iran fires volleys of Silkworms at U.S. ships. Russia and China place their nuclear forces on high alert. Pakistan’s religious extremists, backed by radical elements in the army and the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, occupy Parliament. India launches a pre-emptive strike against Pakistan’s suspected nuclear centers. But the nukes are elsewhere and Pakistan strikes back -- bombing New Delhi, World War III is under way !!! As the neocons now call what we’re already in against al-Qaida !!!

By the summer of 1990, Iraq possessed 16,000 radar-guided and heatseeking surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), including the Soviet SA-2, SA-3, SA-6, SA-7, SA-8, SA-9, SA-13, SA-14, and SA-16, and the Franco-German Roland. Additional air defense was provided by Air Force interceptors and organic Army assets, including the SA-7/14, SA-8, SA-9/13, SA-16 missile systems, and the ZSU-23/4 self-propelled AAA system. In addition, the Iraqi air defense had more than 7,500 AAA pieces protecting all targets of value, some deployed on the roofs of numerous buildings in Baghdad housing government facilities. These weapons -- 57-mm and 37-mm AAA pieces, ZSU-23/4 and ZSU-57/2 self-propelled AAA systems, and hundreds of 14.5-mm and 23-mm light antiaircraft weapons -- formed the backbone of the integrated air defense network. In major high value target areas (such as Baghdad, airfields, chemical agent production complexes, and nuclear facilities) the combined arms air defense could prove lethal to aircraft operating below 10,000 feet.
- The T-54/55 however is still in service in very large numbers with....

Afghanistan 400, Algeria 324, Angola 100, Azerbaijan 123, Bangladesh 60, Belarus 1,000, Bosnia 10, Bulgaria 1,042, Cambodia 100, Central African Republic 4, Chad 60, Congo 25, Croatia 80, Cuba 800, Czech Republic 397, Ecuador 3, Egypt 1,100, Eritrea 30, Ethiopia 300, Finland 70, Georgia 48, Guinea 8, Hungary 597, India 700, Iran 110, Iraq 1,000, Israel 300, Laos 30, Lebanon 205, Libya 1,600, Mali 10, Mauritania 35, Mongolia 400, Mozambique 280, Namibia 8, Nicaragua 127, Nigeria 50, North Korea 2,000, Pakistan 50, Peru 300, Poland, 839, Romania 821, Russia 7,000(Mostly in store), Rwanda 12, Slovakia 206, Slovenia 46, Sri lanka 25, Sudan 250, Syria 2,100, Tanzania 35, Togo 2, Uganda 50, Ukraine 154, Uruguay 15, Uzbekistan 260, Vietnam 850, Yemen 720, Yugoslavia 785, Zambia 10.
This makes a grand total of 28,066 T-54/55,s still in service!!
T-72 in service with.... Algeria 295, Angola 50, Armenia 102, Azerbaijan 147, Belarus 570, Bulgaria 433,
Croatia 60, Czech Republic 541, Finland 160, Georgia 31, Hungary 238, India 1,500, Iran 230, Iraq 700,
Kazakhstan 930, Kyrgyzstan 210, Libya 260, Poland 772, Romania 30, Russia 5,000, Slovakia 272,
Syria 1,500, Tajikistan 40, Turkmenistan 570, Ukraine 1,305, Uzbekistan 30, Yugoslavia 304 !