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It gets better:
Kharg island, that place we bombed, to soften up for a Marine invasion?
Not even visible in that image.
Because its further up north, practically all the way up the Gulf, to Iraq.
So... we're gonna... do an ambibious invasion... that requires the amphib landers... to go through the Strait of Hormuz...
Which is the thing that we currently cannot secure to the point of being able to guarantee safe passage through.
...
It is such a ludicrously stupid plan that if it were anyone but Trump and Hegseth in charge, I would say it is a laughably obvious false attack / psyop diversion.
But, they are in charge, so... it might essentially be an intentional Gallipoli, to serve as a rallying cry, after a bunch of Marines get killed.
It probably got suggested in an off-handed comment by someone and since nobody in the Trump regime has ever looked at a map, it was hailed as a grand idea.
They'll bully countries into letting them cross over from the other side.
We might stage the parts of the 82nd Airborne in ... Kuwait?
Apparently a good deal of them have been moving out, lately.
... And use the MEUs somewhere else?
Invade 'Baluchistan'?
I dunno, seems like a bad idea, to do an airborne assault, when Iran seems to be capable of hitting F35s, which are signifcantly harder to spot than a C-130.
But the MEUs... you'd still have to sail the ships up through the strait.
You're not airlift an amphib pocket carrier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assault_ship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Boxer_(LHD-4)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tripoli_(LHA-7)
They basically have a big door in the back that can open and do a controlled partial flooding of an infernal dock, that the actual amphib assault IFVs and/or hovercraft launch out of.