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Kharg Island is about 400 miles from the Strait of Hormuz and sits just 15 miles off the Iranian coast. If the U.S. were to take the island, any soldiers there could be subject to an onslaught of Iranian drones and missiles. Moreover, it is unclear if the seizure of the island would generate enough pressure on the Iranian government to reopen the strait.

Pure defeatism. The Iranians do not control the air or the sea. There is no other way to get to the Island. If they shoot at the island from the mainland, those assets on the mainland will be destroyed. Mortars do not have enough range. Artillery may have the range, but is easily attacked. Drones which have the range are easily shot down, and their launchers destroyed.

What is left? Rowboats? Canoes? Any surface craft can be destroyed long before it reaches the Island.