What America’s Failures in Iraq Can Tell Us About the War in Iran
What America’s Failures in Iraq Can Tell Us About the War in Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKkpCnZs_Xc
Tag: military
M27 Vs. M7: Why The Marines Aren’t Buying The Army’s New Rifle
The Marines expect to be fighting where they may be on islands cutoff from resupply and need a weapon easy to maintain. They also expect to be close to the enemy, so a larger mag size is more important than the distance the bullet fires. And thus, the Marines are not adapting the Army’s new rifle. The Marines also don’t want to deal with the growing pains of adopting a new rifle and ammunition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkiqJsAxj0
Iranian Oil, Still Shipping
The US allowing Iran to ship its oil while Iran stops most others, except those it gives permission, is a sign of weakness from the US. Trump isn’t willing to face the pain of much higher oil prices. If Trump isn’t willing to take such pain, then why would Iran agree to any significant demands?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnHfKyNcDHY
US to Launch Ground Invasion of Iran… Without a Plan
The 2k or so marines sailing toward Iran from the Pacific, leaving two weeks after the war started for some reason, are not numerous enough to take and hold contested land, like Kharg Island, without heavy casualties. They may be able to make a beachhead in the province of Baluchestan where: the land is further away from the Strait of Hormuz, further away from Tehran, the US has better air supremacy, a landing would be surrounded by open lands where an Iranian attack could be easily seen, and the locals may be sympathetic because they are a different ethnic group and religion than the Persians and already have separatist rebels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9xuuc1U_pc
Trump’s Iran U-turn & how US Marines could reopen the Strait of Hormuz
Former US Colonel Peter Mansoor says Trump thought Iran would surrender just from air attacks and didn’t have a plan for if they didn’t. He also said the war is unconstitutional, and that while a part of him is happy to see Iran get pain after killing hundreds of Americans in the Iraq war, most of him worries that Trump doesn’t have a plan and has opened a can of worms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPfiSB-MN8
The Republican Identity Crisis Over the Iran War
Trump initially said he was a militaristic guy but that he was against dumb wars like the war in Iraq. He later shifted to a more peace-focused rhetoric when he realized that was popular. But, he never had a strong belief in peace and always believed in the use of leverage and military force.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24UV7imfIRk
F-35 reportedly hit by IRANIAN MISSILE, makes emergency landing
An F-35 may have been hit by an Iranian anti-air missile. The plane and pilot survived, making it safely to a base in the Middle East. Stealth makes the F-35 harder to detect and hit, but not invisible. If a video given by Iran purporting to be the F-35 getting hit is real, then it looks like a smaller payload delivered by a relatively short-ranged infrared or electro-optically guided weapon, or even a shoulder fired missile. If a radar guided weapon targeted it, the plane would sense it and the pilot would be trying to avoid it. And if larger, longer-range weapons hit it, the plane would not have survived that size of payload.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEA-vXR3WgI
The US Wants Ukraine’s Cheap Drone Killers
Ukraine’s drone killers are much cheaper than many US interceptors, and the US and Gulf countries are running out of such interceptors, so want these cheaper Ukranian drone killers to defend against Iranian drones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViz_78w_lc
Forcing Open the Strait of Hormuz
Militarily opening the Strait of Hormuz will be incredibly hard. Iran only has to get through once, the US needs to stop every weapon. It will require the great risk of putting a lot of forces close to Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRrfFhRxNi4
IRAN is JUST GETTING STARTED /Alastair Crooke & Lt Col Daniel Davis
Iran was prepared for the US to dominate with “overwhelming” airpower. Iran saw the US take out Saddam’s centralized command with airpower and decided to focus on missiles, drones, and decentralization. Taking out the snake’s head is less effective when there are many snakes with their own weapons, each able to lash out. Iran knew it couldn’t go toe to toe with the US in the skies, so scattered and hid their weapons. Iran knows that the US would not like a long war, so they planned for a long war where a determined Iran can outlast a US that grows weary with the costs of war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGCjDWZthk0