cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/62514525

Archive article: https://archive.is/WCeDJ

The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, U.S. officials said, as thousands of American soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become a dangerous new phase of the war should President Donald Trump choose to escalate. Any potential ground operation would fall short of a full-scale invasion and could instead involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops, said the officials. All spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss highly sensitive military plans that have been in development for weeks.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 days ago

    Iran has a professional army with a ground force of 300k.

    That’s about the same number of boots the US has. It’ll be no small logistic feat to get that operation a chance.

    • markko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      Tony Schwartz, Drumpf’s ghostwriter for The Art of the Deal, told The New Yorker “More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.”

  • middlemanSI@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    Gotta help israelis genocide and landgrab while gun lobby gets ritcher, people get poorer. USA USa uSA /s

  • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    This isn’t going to be a surprise attack. They once held the advantage but they pissed that away. Now they will face a prepared enemy in an advantaged position.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    “We did Iwo Jima, we can do this,” Graham said in an interview on Fox News last weekend. “My money’s always on the Marines.”

    7000 US soldiers died on Iwo Jima, and nearly 20,000 were wounded.

    • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      7000 US soldiers died on Iwo Jima, and nearly 20,000 were wounded.

      Which is kinda interesting since they have around 10k troops deployable troops. One wouldn’t want to be in the situation where the US “wants to save lives lost resulting from a ground invasion”…