War with Iran?

[Dill]

(06-17-2019, 07:05 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Their conventional forces are not so much of a concern. They can't stand toe-to-toe with us on an open battlefield, even with ten million men. Our combat multipliers far exceed anything that anyone except Russia could handle in the open field. We know that. They know that.

But terrain is a great equalizer. Millions of guerillas in the mountains with more advanced weapons than the Taliban would be a stalemate. We would own the lowlands, they would own the mountains. Going into the mountains to get them would create casualties far exceeding Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Add Russian influence into the mix and it is a complete nightmare.

I cringe at the thought of the casualties created in trying to protect supply caravans from the coasts into an occupied Tehran.

This sounds like defeatism!! 

Whatever it takes to get the job done!

Nevermind whether we really need to do the job.

Remember that once we took Kabul and Baghdad, what reason had the remaining thousands of armed insurgents to continue fighting?