So we can have blast hardened shelters shipped halfway around the world in 30 days but homelessness is unsolvable.
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Protection for the troops a month after starting the war and 13 of the nearby bases destroyed.... there doesn't even seem to be a plan on where to place these additional 50,000 troops arriving within the next 2 weeks other than leaving them as sitting ducks in ships. There was never a plan ... they are winging it I really hope everyone is realizing this. If it wasn't for some of the naval commanders already saying no to the madmen on bringing our ships closer to shore for an invasion so far, the number of casualties would be alot higher on both sides.
50,000?!
I only saw news about the Tripoli and Boxer which combined carry about 5,000 marines.
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.
This couldn't be more American if the trenches included a fast food restaurant.
Any other country would've issued spades.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2010/0407/No-more-Burger-King-on-Afghanistan-base-Soldiers-grumble.
See that Burger King? That's a standard shipping container. You can fit that in a C-130 and have it anywhere in the world in 24 hours.
With how electrics play into modern warfare and even more so now I think having a means to set up a base or whatever even faster is going to be a major aspect to this.
But please, oh great and wise gubbernment, tell us more about how healthcare is unaffordable, grocery prices can't get cheaper, and gas prices need to increase to win duh wahr!
Surely another sign that the US has everything under control and knows what they're doing in Iran. /s
I think they're doing this in the wrong order... you order shelters first then attack, not the other way around.
I was unaware they could store planes in bunkers. You know, since there will be no boots on the ground, right?
So much for preparedness. Feel bad for the soldiers who will be launched into this.
Its the department of war


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