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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They'll bully countries into letting them cross over from the other side.

Let us use your country to launch attacks or we'll cripple you economically.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    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 gonna 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.

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