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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?

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@DC5FAN@poa.st remote

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

@deprecated_ii@poa.st remote

@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

Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

@wgiwf@poa.st remote

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.

@deprecated_ii@poa.st remote

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

BobsonDugnuttHB

@BobsonDugnuttHB@poa.st remote

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.

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@WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st remote

I'm starting to think the end goal isn't a real victory but a plausibly realistic propaganda one. If you were going for effect, (and you were desperately blackmailed & retarded) then you could plan on seizing some port and bottle up the iranians at some mountainous choke point with air assets.

In the office, everyone can pretend you "only need a few thousand marines" and "you can keep their army contained with 24/7 air strikes". If it works then cool! You have a bartering chip for a fake treaty to retreat with the myth of american power intact.

If it doesn't work....well, a few thousand dead GIs would surely galvanize the public into WWII-level mobilization, no?

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