The current rumors are that the U.S. wants to get a ceasefire, move the Marines through the Strait, land them on Kharg Island, and then use all of the Rangers and 160th SOAR assets that just got moved to "take" the Iranian coast so that the Marines- all 5K of them- sitting on a massive island dotted with the real-life equivalent of red barrels don't get annihilated.
Matt Bracken has been pointing out that the smallest Iranian-held island is as big as some of the Pacific islands which took ten times as many Marines months to capture. And that there's no way to stage the 160th in friendly territory without it being obvious. Oh, and one of our three carriers in the area got hit by a missile suffered a massive laundry room fire and another is being sabotaged is having an unfortunate issue with their shitters.
The current rumors are that the U.S. wants to get a ceasefire, move the Marines through the Strait, land them on Kharg Island, and then use all of the Rangers and 160th SOAR assets that just got moved to "take" the Iranian coast so that the Marines- all 5K of them- sitting on a massive island dotted with the real-life equivalent of red barrels don't get annihilated.
Matt Bracken has been pointing out that the smallest Iranian-held island is as big as some of the Pacific islands which took ten times as many Marines months to capture. And that there's no way to stage the 160th in friendly territory without it being obvious. Oh, and one of our three carriers in the area
got hit by a missilesuffered a massive laundry room fire and anotheris being sabotagedis having an unfortunate issue with their shitters.I don't even need to look up a map to know that an invasion of Iran is geographically dumb without a complete country mobilisation.