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so uh, how are they doing that? they're just sending ships full of men and materiel to the island? and we're letting them?

why isn't there an F/A-18 overhead 24/7 ready to drop a 2000 pound bomb through the deck of any suspicious ship approaching the island? we have air dominance, right?

Pretty sure even the Pentagon isnt dumb enough to telegraph this so far in advance.

@DC5FAN I doubt the intention is to take kharg island but if you're setting up a feint it should look real

my guess is they're going to try to seize the port of chabahar

That isn't going to be a whole lot easier to do than seizing Kharg Island, just less overtly suicidal, and they'd have to go for a major port area to be able to offload supplies.

@wgiwf @DC5FAN there are no good options but being on an island with no cover is one of the worse ones

I have no doubt the US could achieve a landing somewhere, even if contested and taking serious causalities. My question is how the US plans to hold any landing once achieved.

Amphibious landing that immediately results in urban combat

Unless you can encircle the city. They did that a lot in Iraq.

The Iraqi army was surrendering en-masse to advancing US forces. Nothing about the situation is comparable.