What Would A US Counterattack Against Iran Look Like If Iran Attacks American Targets

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson conducts operations in the Arabian Sea, Jan. 21, 2012. The Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing 17 are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Benjamin Stevens

In Event Of An Iran-Israel Showdown, What Would US Military Do? -- Christian Science Monitor

Iran was top of the agenda Monday at the Obama-Netanyahu meeting. A recent war game gave US military officials a sense of the threat exposure from operating in a narrow waterway such as the Strait of Hormuz, off Iran's coast.

How would the US military respond if Iran attacked US interests – in retaliation for, say, an Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities? What would a US counterattack look like?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington Monday to meet with President Obama – which comes in the midst of increasingly vocal warnings from Pentagon officials urging caution on any military action in the region – has brought these questions into sharp focus this week.

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My Comment: After reading this article, I could not help but feel that the U.S. is unsure of what to do in the event of an Iranian attack. It seems to me that an American response will be dependent on what the Iranians would do .... a strategy that I am not comfortable with in view of the deadly arsenal that the Iranians have in countering a U.S. military presence in the region. But then again .... I may be wrong .... and the U.S. does have a robust and thoughtful strategy on what to do in the event that Iran threatens American interests.