I increasingly wonder if the US isn’t going to do any kind of specific dedicate all troops to one mission to seize one thing type operation and instead plans to create several groups of raiding parties more or less they drop into Iran to target missile cities or something else of value, attack under heavy air support and suppression for most of a day, then pull out and leave, return and do the same thing in a day or so at another location. Basically try and counter their mosaic defense with unpredictable forceful strikes that leave the disconnected different regions reeling and unable to know where to rush troops and by the time they do the Americans are leaving already.
Otherwise it really has to be either trying to take some part of the coast or islands, trying to seize the nuclear material, or some wild scheme about trying to take some part of Iran on its border that has ethnic sub-groups and trying to start an insurgency that they help along in the initial stages before pulling back and hoping their local pawns do the heavy lifting and dying to pressure Tehran.
That’s not really what the US military ever does though, right? Normally they lumber in with bombers and poorly armoured jeeps and build a big base with a Burger King in the middle of it, then continue to bombard the surrounding countryside for about a decade or two before leaving in disgrace.
I expect that an attempt at taking the ports in the south is the most likely scenario. It’s worth remembering that 50k is a total number including support, not just assault troops that will do direct fighting. They might try doing raids deeper into Iran, but that’s very risky given that a lot of US jets have been shot down over Iran already. A troop transport will be a juicy target. So, I do think it’s more likely they would try to attack ports or islands instead of trying to do operations deep in Iran. We’ll see what they do shortly one way or the other I suspect.
I increasingly wonder if the US isn’t going to do any kind of specific dedicate all troops to one mission to seize one thing type operation and instead plans to create several groups of raiding parties more or less they drop into Iran to target missile cities or something else of value, attack under heavy air support and suppression for most of a day, then pull out and leave, return and do the same thing in a day or so at another location. Basically try and counter their mosaic defense with unpredictable forceful strikes that leave the disconnected different regions reeling and unable to know where to rush troops and by the time they do the Americans are leaving already.
Otherwise it really has to be either trying to take some part of the coast or islands, trying to seize the nuclear material, or some wild scheme about trying to take some part of Iran on its border that has ethnic sub-groups and trying to start an insurgency that they help along in the initial stages before pulling back and hoping their local pawns do the heavy lifting and dying to pressure Tehran.
That’s not really what the US military ever does though, right? Normally they lumber in with bombers and poorly armoured jeeps and build a big base with a Burger King in the middle of it, then continue to bombard the surrounding countryside for about a decade or two before leaving in disgrace.
I expect that an attempt at taking the ports in the south is the most likely scenario. It’s worth remembering that 50k is a total number including support, not just assault troops that will do direct fighting. They might try doing raids deeper into Iran, but that’s very risky given that a lot of US jets have been shot down over Iran already. A troop transport will be a juicy target. So, I do think it’s more likely they would try to attack ports or islands instead of trying to do operations deep in Iran. We’ll see what they do shortly one way or the other I suspect.
That’s like delta force shit if delta force wasn’t mostly just murdering families in their sleep.