Send The Marines!

"We started the war with a good approach"

Wait a minute. We started it? A rather damning admission. Makes us an "aggressor nation", which once was a bad thing, but no longer under the "Peace Pres." More specifically, were competent military planners involved in what little planning was done? Is this the same Iran whose military has been destroyed several times over attacking us defending themselves, Second Amendment-style?

Now, here’s the land combat portion. Why haven’t we put a brigade ashore to sweep, say, a 5-10 mile deep swath along the length of the strait? As best I can tell, that would eliminate every remaining speedboat and most of the relevant combat facilities (weapons warehoused, radars, command and control facilities, troop housing/hideouts, etc.

Oh, but what if Iranian troops confront us? Oh no! What will we do? Well, how about we thank them for revealing themselves and gathering together in one place so that we can more easily and efficiently kill them?

A sweep would remove most of the remaining ability of Iran to harass shipping in the strait.

Are we so afraid of casualties that we won’t risk soldiers? If so, then this war isn’t very important. If it is important, then ground troops are justified. This would be a training exercise for a WWII battalion.

We started the war with a good approach but it’s devolved into a decidedly half-assed affair the last couple of weeks.

Obviously lusting for blood, but hasn't the admiral here heard the one about land wars in Asia? Or listened to any of the inane & contradictory crap Big Dopey Don spews every day? Or the actual Sec'y. of "War", who needs mental help too? How does he expect anything rational from these clowns?

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