{"id":21949,"date":"2026-03-29T15:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21949"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:57:04","slug":"col-douglas-macgregor-us-will-not-beat-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21949","title":{"rendered":"Col Douglas Macgregor: US WILL NOT BEAT IRAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People like Ted Cruz act like destroying a bunch of stuff and killing a bunch of people means the US is winning the war.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>War isn&#8217;t a sports game where the side with the most points wins. If the US fails to achieve its political&nbsp;objectives, which according to Ted Cruz is a new and friendly regime, then the US loses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anywhere US infantry concentrates near or in Iran, is going to get pulverized by Iranian missiles and drones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British couldn&#8217;t take Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I with 500,000 men. That campaign is analogous&nbsp;to potential ground invasions&nbsp;of Iran. For the US to invade, Iran&#8217;s missile and drone abilities have to be eliminated, but despite the many used and taken out, Iran seems to have enough left. In WWII, the US invasion of Normandy&nbsp;was a bloody affair, but Germany&#8217;s long range ability was taken out by then or on the eastern front. American military people may be in trouble if they land on Iran.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Col Douglas Macgregor: US WILL NOT BEAT IRAN\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zl_8LaoXJEc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People like Ted Cruz act like destroying a bunch of stuff and killing a bunch of people means the US is winning the war. <\/p>\n<p>War isn&#8217;t a sports game where the side with the most points wins. If the US fails to achieve its political objectives, which according to Ted Cruz is a new and friendly regime, then the US loses. <\/p>\n<p>Anywhere US infantry concentrates near or in Iran, is going to get pulverized by Iranian missiles and drones. <\/p>\n<p>The British couldn&#8217;t take Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I with 500,000 men. That campaign is analogous to potential ground invasions of Iran. For the US to invade, Iran&#8217;s missile and drone abilities have to be eliminated, but despite the many used and taken out, Iran seems to have enough left. In WWII, the US invasion of Normandy was a bloody affair, but Germany&#8217;s long range ability was taken out by then or on the eastern front. American military people may be in trouble if they land on Iran. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zl_8LaoXJEc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,272,355,314,156,391,619,158],"class_list":["post-21949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21950,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions\/21950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}