If there is any war of any kind it will not include troops being at the mercy of IEDs or holding territory. Their job will be to keep international commerce flowing safely through the straits of Hormuz. That means breaking things the Iranians can use to threaten that commerce. If the Iranians react badly to that by firing missiles at other countries, it means using air power and our own capabilities to break the things they use to do that (a much more destructive...and dramatic...outcome).
Donald Trump will not engage in regime change, or invasions, or nation building. Those things don’t work and are in fact destructive not constructive. What is happening now is preparation for the possibility that Iran will attempt to disrupt international commerce in a very big way, and the further possibility that it may attempt - as its regional power diminishes from its losses in Syria and Iraq - to create a larger conflagration by attacking Gulf States, Saudi Arabia or even Israel. Trump is not going to pull a Bush or a Clinton.
I don't think he would either, but I am long past the point of trusting anyone.
The last public figure who criticized "regime change" and "nation building" was a retarded baboon running for president in 2000. Look where that got us.
*** Donald Trump will not engage in regime change, or invasions, or nation building. ***
So, that is our 46th President, John Bolton trying to drag us into Venezuela and Iran? I don’t remember that election. Was it the same election cycle where Juan Guaido was dubbed duly elected President of Venezuela? /S