[middie]

We will be watching closely how the Iranians themselves handle the extreme difficulties o that country's terrible geography. They have the most impenetrable and forbidding topography of any formidable and potentially hostile nation. Roads are non-existent, terrain is too hostile for maneuver forces to be re-supplied and supported logistically, the mountains are every bit as impassible as next door in Afghanistan making maneuver forces irrelevant because they'd be dispersed and ineffective.

The weather is classic 'continental' of searing hot days and frigid nights in Summer and northern Canadian-type cold in rest of the year. Deep aerial interdiction is a virtual impossibility and the present governing gang has moved everything underground.

It's a horrible fate to out of the war and contingency planning loop sidelined by the passage of time alone.

[observer5]

Just bomb the place from 32,000 feet. No need to create another Iraq disaster.