x-Admiral Montgomery’s sees a 2-3 week timeline to US control of Hormuz. Conditions must be set for control, if they are not set then it will very difficult to end the war.
The degradation strikes continue (including on all the island sites) could reach the knock-down point by ~March 21–28.
After the missiles, drones are other Iran factories and systems are degraded then roll in 10–14 Aegis destroyers + air/helo cover for convoys.
This strait will flip from closed to open perception, with US control lasting 3–7 years.
Part of the degradation phase is hammering every island launch site, radar, runway, and boat port with airstrikes.
Montgomery does not mention it but NBF (Brian Wang) theorizes there might be quick Marine and special operation raids only on the three smallest highest-threat islands (Abu Musa + Greater/Lesser Tunb). These are tiny and give permanent pincer denial.
There will be no occupation or ground on Qeshm but it is and will be hit.
Kharg island strategy is only for the extra economic pressure and is not part of the Hormuz strategy other than leverage.
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Ah, the Military………
Did not win the Korean War.
Did not win the Vietnam war.
Did not win the Cambodian war.
Did not win the Laotian war.
Did not win the Middle East war.
Did not win the Myanmar war.
Did not win the Cuban war.
etc. etc.
Empires have been lost by the Military for around the past eight thousand years (give or take).
Iran is an ideological war between a mass murdering religious cult and any idea that the Military has of winning it in any form, or in any way.
Not saying that there is not a silver lining in this war for America, the American Military will gain valuable war waging experience from this exercise, for fighting WW3.
My concern is that once the munitions run low, as they surely must, the Military will want to throw human bodies at the enemy as it did in WW2 and WW1. Now that will be very evil, again! Forget conscription, the very profitable (for some) Vietnam war brought that to an end. Plodders are no longer going to be sweet talked into mindlessly giving up their lives for such “brave” Military commanders!
The President will need to sit down with the Shah and hammer out a replacement, democratically elected, Persian Central Government (that the locals will openly support) that can stand up an army and a police force to relentlessly hunt down these madmen.
Otherwise, the mullahs will use delaying tactics to regroup, go underground, and discover new (easier) ways (that already exist) to make their nuclear weapons. These crazy and obscenely violent monsters are going to destroy Western civilization with their fake “religion”, or be exterminated trying.
Mass murdering religious cult? Are you talking about Israel or Iran?
Or are you talking abotu the Christian ZIonists that want Israel to succeed only so their prophecies will bring forth the end of the world and Jesus second coming and the Rapture?
There is nothing more mass murdering religious cult than WANTING the end of the world and 8 billion dead
China knows what WW2 did to UK, and is well positioned to do the same.
“X US Admiral Describes Two Week Plan for US Victory”
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Operation Epstein Fury is not all it was said to be.