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🇺🇸🇮🇷 17,000 troops on Iran's doorstep and nowhere good to send them...
Every option the Pentagon drew up is a version of the same bad math.
Seize Kharg Island and Marines sit 16 miles from the mainland absorbing missiles and drones around the clock.
Take Abu Musa and ships have to pass through mine-infested shallow waters where Iranian supersonic missiles arrive in seconds.
Go after the uranium and you need a week of excavation under fire at bombed-out nuclear sites.
A retired admiral called it plainly: troops on any island would be "sitting ducks."
A former CENTCOM commander said securing uranium "isn't a quick in and out kind of deal."
For context, the U.S. used 30,000+ troops across two divisions plus British forces just to take Baghdad.
17,000 can't hold anything for long under sustained fire.
The most honest assessment came from the same former commander: the biggest purpose these troops serve might simply be leverage.
The threat of boots on the ground is more useful than the boots themselves.
Source: WSJ
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🚨🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇷 CBS confirms all ten Americans wounded at Prince Sultan Air Base suffered serious injuries, with two classified as very serious. Iranian missiles and drones hit the base again. 300+ U.S. troops now wounded in four weeks. 13 killed. Source: CBS News
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