Steve Forbes Roars: America faces a stark choice: Finish Iran now or accept strategic defeat - "Given the magnitude of the stakes involved, the future course is clear for the U.S. Give up the fantasy that Iran is ready to surrender on the essentials. We must gird ourselves to resume hostilities."
Posted by anarchyart2021@reddit | EndlessWar | View on Reddit | 9 comments
Involution88@reddit
Good luck with that.
The US would need to sustain about 1.5-2 million troops indefinitely to occupy Iran.
That's after the roughly 2.7-3 million troops the US would need for the initial invasion.
US recruitment age would likely need to be increased to 65 or a 2-3 year mandatory service/draft would need to be established.
fainofgunction@reddit
Finish Iran now? How? The only way to do that would be a land invasion. Iran roughly is the size of the US east of the Mississippi and has a larger population than Germany in ww2 and Russia lost 8-10 million soldiers to defeat the Germans and it took 6 years. Even a nuclear strike wouldn't end the war because the military are in hardened underground bunkers.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
You should see the topographic map of Iran too.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
War vs Iran was war-gamed 20 years ago. Iran easily won without any modern tech. Now it's military is the 3rd most developed in drone warfare behind Russia and Ukraine.
To invade Iran would require going through mountain passages and securing those passages for supply routes. Those mountains are like dominos. Even if you try to secure one top, you are vulnerable to attack from other sides so to prevent those attacks you have to expand your security perimeter over and over until it is unsustainable even against a small mobile militia force. Which is why US was unable to accomplish that against Afganis who did not even have any modern weapons.
Iran on the other hand not only will have Russia's most advanced drones but also MANPADS and GLONASS satellite access.
WalnutNode@reddit
There's no war goal beyond aggression and destruction. Doubling down on a strategy that can never work isn't a strategy. If the stakes were that high, and failure was the only outcome they shouldn't have played the game.
digitalgimp@reddit
The reasoning behind this is simple. What happens if a real estate developer finds a way to get a monopoly on the world oil market. What happens if that lowlife becomes president of the United States and now believes he can become the world’s wealthiest man by controlling the world’s oil markets.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-energy-dominance-oil-iran-venezuela-2026-2?op=1
The world’s most dangerous simpleton. And a psychopath as well.
WalnutNode@reddit
He works mainly by ordering his staff to get it done. If It's legal or not is their problem. I don't see him giving up the White House if he's forced out or his term ends this time around.
anarchyart2021@reddit (OP)
What the hell happened to Steve Forbes? I want the $50 back I donated to his presidential campaign back in 1996.
digitalgimp@reddit
Probably spent that and more acquiring ownership of some poor company to strip it of all assets and fire all of its employees. You gave to a worthy cause I’m sure.