After Irak, Will Iran Be Next?

I came across this quite long but worth reading article over Arts & Letters Daily. Puplished in the Atlantic Online in December 2004, the article goes into detail with how the US simulates the conduct of a war by starting to play "war games". Before the invasion of Irak, several "war games" were conducted. The same thing has been applied to Iran where soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results...