US Perspective on the Iran - Israel / US War

[AZ_HighCountry]

The US used 6 carrier groups and 500,000+ ground forces in Desert Storm.

The US has used a couple carriers groups, a dozen or so destroyers, 200-300 hundred fighters, and 25-30 bombers against Iran. The US is nowhere near all in.

Cat playing with its food.

 

[RescueRanger]

Taking those small islands serves no strategic purpose...they should land near chahbhar and go around those fortified rocky areas of Hormuz...it can be easily encircled and cutoff from any supply .

On the contrary, what people I fear still don't understand is this has NEVER been about occupation for the US, but "CONTAINMENT" the sooner people learn to distinguish the two, the better.

 

[VCheng]

On the contrary, what people I fear still don't understand is this has NEVER been about occupation for the US, but "CONTAINMENT" the sooner people learn to distinguish the two, the better.

There is no need to occupy what one can control.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Taking those small islands serves no strategic purpose...they should land near chahbhar and go around those fortified rocky areas of Hormuz...it can be easily encircled and cutoff from any supply .

As I said, a diversion. Diversions work. We managed to draw off the Iraqi Army in 1991 with a feigned landing on the Kuwaiti coast.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

If power and water desalinization plants are able to serve a military purpose, then they are legitimate military targets.

I figured some were bound to disagree with some of my posts. Facts are what they are.

 

[BigMela2onin]

Of course we can hold it and the support assets are already in place to ensure that.

Comparing with Vietnam from a military sense is ludicrous. We lost politically. Not militarily.

You lost Vietnam militarily because you lost politically.

 

[VCheng]

We lost politically. Not militarily.

Not to take this thread off topic, but not even that. None of the other dominoes fell.

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

I have no doubt it ... you can't prolong this ding dong affair for too long..it has to be settled one way or the other.

I believe the IRGC's strategy of prolonging the conflict is ultimately a death sentence for itself.

The Americans are not naïve. They know how to fight long wars and have accumulated more experience in sustained military conflicts than most other nations in modern history.

I also think the IRGC realises it is increasingly being sidelined, even by elements within the Iranian government. With few people wanting to see it play a role in a future Iran, it appears willing to create instability across the region, even if that comes at Iran's own expense.

This reflects a deeply corrupt and ruthless system that has become rotten to the core after maintaining such a rigid grip on power for so long.

Instead of Iran fighting for its survival, it is increasingly looking as though the IRGC is fighting for its own survival.