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Posted on 03/18/2026 5:47:50 PM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter.
The deployments could help provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations, with the Iran war well into its third week.
Those options include securing safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a mission that would be accomplished primarily through air and naval forces, the sources said. But securing the Strait could also mean deploying U.S. troops to Iran's shoreline, said four sources, including two U.S. officials.
Reuters granted the sources anonymity to speak about military planning.
The Trump administration has also discussed options to send ground forces to Iran's Kharg Island, the hub for 90% of Iran's oil exports, the three people familiar with the matter and three U.S. officials said. One of the officials said such an operation would be very risky. Iran has the ability to reach the island with missiles and drones.
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However, I don't see how you open Hormuz without taking Bandar Abbas at the apex of the strait. And yes, the US could do that.
At enormous political cost.
However, it's nothing compared to the cost to the nation of allowing Iran to maintain control over the strait and allow this current regime to stay in power.
Now that we're in this mess, we have to win it decisively.
Reuters via Yahoo - excrement in a cesspool.
I figure the only other thing you could do without boots on the ground is to start taking out civilian infrastructure in Iran - kill their power grid, cut off their ability to produce oil.
Dead Americans coming home in coffins. A real vote getter.
Has anyone looked at a topographical map of Iran? And its coastline of over 1,500 miles?
After checking the map, keep in mind those mountains are riddled with caverns and honeycombed with shore-to-ship missile batteries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign
Do you have a source for "riddled with caverns and honeycombed with shore-to-ship missile batteries"?
Reuters granted their sources anonymity, it’s like I’ve heard this somewhere before.
Bet old Trump didn’t count on this.....so much for quick in and out...
“said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter”
more anonymous rumors being published as fact ... the nasty media strategy with anonymous sources is that you can have them say anything your want them to say, and then try to get confirmation or denial ...
LOL- keep hope alive never Trumper!!!
I never understood how the U.S. ended up with a Vietnam War memorial in D.C. with 50,000+ names on it until I began reading this kind of idiocy with boring regularity here on FR.
Help Needed .. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4371180/posts
… even after the same clowns insisted days or weeks earlier that the rumors were just TDS media lies.
More likely he didn't know the difference between incursion and excursion
It is an interesting time.
https://x.com/Matt_Bracken48/status/2033646945819103247
"I make these maps because I'm convinced most Americans have no concept of scale when it comes to warfare.
🧵 over on X: https://x.com/Matt_Bracken48/status/2033646945819103247
I point to all the folks high-fiving over a single Marine battalion landing team on its way to the conflict zone. An Amphibious Ready Group's BLT means about 1,200 combat Marines going ashore.
By comparison, and please look at the chart and the islands, Okinawa took 4 Army and 3 Marine divisions 82 days to conquer, at the cost of 12,500 American KIA and 36,000 WIA. Okinawa is smaller than Qeshm.
Iwo Jima, smaller than Larak Island, took a month and 6,800 Marine KIA and 19,000 WIA to subdue.
On both islands, US Navy battleships and cruisers spent weeks blasting every suspected Japanese position with 8" to 16" cannons. All the experts were sure no Japs could be left alive. The experts were wrong.
The Iranians have spent decades digging in for this "Big Event." The Iranian IRGC Shia Islam code of martyrdom is as strong as the Japanese code of Bushido during WW2. They will not surrender, IMHO.
It doesn't matter if we turn Teheran (700 miles north) into a parking lot."
I really, really hope Matt is wrong on this.
Makes as much sense today as it did back then
No one said it was going to be a quick “ in and out.”
The US conflict with Iran began in 1979.
The mullah psycho-regime has attacked 12 countries in 18 days.
They absolutely would use nukes if they had them.
The US never worked to end Viet Nam decisively. To win that war.
Decisively.
That was never the plan.
“Those options include securing safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a mission that would be accomplished primarily through air and naval forces, the sources said. But securing the Strait could also mean deploying U.S. troops to Iran’s shoreline, said four sources, including two U.S. officials.”
* Total Deflection. from a:
* 30 Trillion Private National Currency “Spill” A real Spill
* Protection Racket.
* We, The United States, have plenty of oil. Notice no gas ⛽ lines.
* This is a currency protection Racket. And military protection Racket rider.
* Time to go home
Thought exercise: why does the Strait need to be opened? It mainly supplies the EU and China anyway. We have all the oil and gas we need domestically and in the Western Hemisphere. Trump already asked them if they wanted to participate in escorts to open it - and they said NO. Maybe with a little more pressure on them, they can straighten out their own ally, Iran (especially China)
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