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If Donnie actually tries to capture Kharg it will turn into a disaster that makes the bombed air bases and radar dishes of the past weeks look like children playing with toy rifles. These marines aren't ukrainian/russian soldiers who've spend the past couple years learning how to fight with and against drones, they're totally green on the kind of battlefield that they're being sent to.
The cryon eaters have to reach it first, the island is well behind the strait.
Could they not travel through the Red Sea, disembark in Saudi Arabia, travel across the peninsula, and then embark again in Kuwait, Bahrain, or a Saudi port? I highly doubt the US military would funnel an invasion force through the strait.
To get the southern ports of Saudi-Arabia they have to get past Yemen, propably also a bad idea.
Oman might work, but no idea if the Omani government is open for such a move.
And if they make it somehow, they'd still need landing craft, escort ships and so on. The whole thing seems impractical, but I'm a amateur what do I know. Maybe the military smarty pants have a plan.
I think the military smarty pants (all whom have been sacked) would have resoundingly said "DONT DO IT!".
Going past Yemen seems much more manageable then going through the strait at any rate. But what do I know, I’m not a military general.
The naval bases at Qatar and Kuwait should also have the vast majority of the equipment that’s necessary, unless the plan is a full ground invasion of Iran which is a batshit insane idea.
Your talking about people who were stupid enough to start a war with Iran, so steaming full bore into a meat grinder would seem par for the course. Trump probably figures if USans see their sailor boys getting massacred, they'll suddenly rally in support.
Trump might be a raving lunatic, but his generals still call the shots with logistics and deployments, and I highly doubt a trained officer would be stupid enough to authorize a convoy steam full bore through the strait.
Even a blind sycophant knows that would sink their entire career.
His general staff would probably wave a few buzzwords praising trump in a shiny PowerPoint briefing with lots of pictures to distract the dumbass, and trump would nod along and agree.
It is still a long drive, and the narrow twisty mountain roads as well as restrictions to non-Muslims around Makkah limit the capacity.
What twisty mountain roads? Are you aware that the Saudi Arabian peninsula is crisscrossed by a modern highway system that carves straight through the mountains? This isn’t 2005 Afghanistan. There’s also rail lines for heavier equipment.
The highway system also begins at Jeddah a major port city, and goes around Makkah, to avoid that very issue. There is no reason a US convoy would enter Makkah’s city limits.
The طريق الهدا connects Makkah to Taif and is also used to bypass Makkah from the south.
Look it up. I've only driven through it a few times.
There is another طريق السيل الكبير which bypasses Makkah from the north it is flatter but still narrow and bendy and packed with trucks.
The road you posted I bet is somewhere in Najd, the topography looks nothing like the mountains of Hijaz.
There's no rail lines west of Riyadh except a passanger HSR connecting Makkah to Medina. Though gondolas could be an option, maybe...