Matt bracken On Invading Kharg Island
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07/19/2026 08:55 PM
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Anyone who thinks a ground invasion of Iran is a serious possibility needs to watch this...
Matt Bracken is a former Navy SEAL and spec ops veteran, and he just delivered one of the most sobering comparisons I've heard yet:
Kharg Island is the size of Iwo Jima, where the U.S. pounded the island with battleships for WEEKS before landing 70,000 Marines... and still lost 7,000 lives and had 19,000 wounded in a single month.
Qeshm Island is bigger than Okinawa, which took 3 months and cost 12,000 American lives.
Iran has had decades to tunnel these islands, study U.S. tactics, and prepare for precisely this scenario, and unlike Japan in WWII, they have precision missiles that can reach every inch of the Persian Gulf.
"If we went into Iran, I think we will lose everybody we send in, the more we send in, the more we lose, and the Iranians have been very open about saying, come on in, we welcome you."
Matt ended by saying rationality is out the window, and that this started with a February 28th sneak attack, so nothing should be considered off the table.
Great talking to you, @Matt_Bracken48 Onward and upward, airforce
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We don't need to invade it at all. All we need to do is target the power distribution infrastructure, which is clearly visible on satellite assets like Google Earth - so imagine how much better national technical assets would be.
No power? No oil moves. PERIOD. Easy enough to fix when the time comes and the IRANIAN people revolt against their own miserable government.
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That applies to their civil war, not to Kharg Island
Emergency Medicine - saving the world from themselves, one at a time. "Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." I make the ADL soil themselves. And that makes me very happy
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