Seriously, do you honestly think that nobody in Syria or Russia is going to be able to make some pretty good educated guesses about what kind of attack we're considering launching?
The capabilities of our missiles have been public knowledge for more than a decade. The abilities of the B-2 Bomber is probably as well known by now to the Russians. They were in Baghdad when we started bombing watching the radar and learning our capabilities. I'd bet they have a way to track the damned things by now. Technical advances have a shelf life you know.
The capabilities of our ships and submarines are similarly known. The exact frequencies of our radars, the detection range, the blind spots, if any. The sonar signatures of our ships and subs are general knowledge to the Russians. Do you think they would not share that information with their ally, and Syria is a Russian Ally if you haven't heard. The only military port the Russians have in a foreign country is in Syria. So if we're dumb enough to attack, we're either going to be firing right over them, or channeling our weapons up a very narrow corridor away from them. Either way, the Russians are not going to sit still and let their ally get bombed.
The Russians are deploying more ships to the Med, but not all their ships. In other words, they've wargamed it out, and they think they have enough to win if the shooting starts. We would not send our ships into that kind of situation without specific orders on when they can fire. Do you think they have?
Tactics are well known by now. This isn't like World War II when we could sneak up and attack an island where they didn't expect us. Our ships are on radar right now. The Russians saw the missile launch from Israel and reported it before we broke the news. Satellites are watching our ships, and the Russians are downloading images and probably electronic noise from the ships and subs.
You guys are making a big mistake, you imagine Syria as a lone rogue nation. They aren't. They are an ally of a major power. An ally of a nuclear power with the capability to destroy our cities five times over. We have one chance, one of getting Russia to reign in Syria, and we're blowing it by going along pretending that Syria is a rogue nation that nobody is going to fight for. Imagine if someone was going to attack Spain, we have a naval base there, don't you think we'd go on alert and be prepared to defend our friend?
There is no way that this ends well, and unlike Iraq we're not going to smite thousands of them without getting our hair mussed. We'll be lucky if mushroom clouds aren't hovering over the cities of the world before it's over.
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