It is completely insane to me that basically no one in major media is discussing this:

Ok, so say we somehow get the Tripoli and Boxer up close enough to Kharg or anywhere else such that they can actually deploy LCACs and LAVs and ACVs in an amphib assault.

... Awesome, there are now 500 to 5000 Shahed drones en route to blow them all up while they are motoring to the LZ.

.... what is the fucking counter to this?

Literally none of those things have anti-drone capabilities.

What, are we going to screen an amphib assault with... AH 1Zs and F18s and F35s... shooting down all the drones?

Cool, then a significant proportion of those get shot down too.

Our doctrine is so based on the concept of aerial supremacy that we seem to have just forgotten how to conceptualize not having it.

You do not have aerial supremacy if the enemy can launch aircraft/drones and missiles against your assets.

Its a similar problem with an aerial / air cav style assault... Ospreys or other choppers doing advance insertions, or the 82nd jumping out of C130s...

... They'd all be a shooting gallery for the shorter range drones and missiles that Iran has tons of, that we are not able to premptively destroy.

And if anything manages to land or come ashore... the same problem remains.

Even NeoCon think tanks that have been pushing for the US to fuck up Iran for 20+ years are frantically writing reports trying to explain how stupid the current apparent 'strategy' is.

Its like we are trying to fuck up harder than Gallipoli.