Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/28/trump-iran-ground-troops-marines/

49 Comments

  1. o_MrBombastic_o on

    If your plan has it only taking a few weeks it’s probably not a well thought out plan. I hope you’re planning to have a back up plan for when things go the same way as your previous plans

  2. Juste-un-autre-alt on

    Say what you want, his distraction from the Epstein files is working and as bad as it may sound for Trump it’s still a better outcome than being exposed as a pedophile.

  3. Wait, is this the same planning team that ignored all the intelligence reports that stated they did not expect the regime to collapse? Those guys?

  4. Educational_Bend_941 on

    They’re not even giving us a Boogeyman? Like at least make up some Ayatollah name for us. Jesus

  5. Gotta send 20k people to verify that the obliterated obliterates are indeed obliterated.

  6. ContributionUpper424 on

    What’s the objectives here? Didn’t Trump say the war was already won?

  7. ZeroPhish1234 on

    We are not doing that.
    We are definatly not doing that.
    There is no way we are doing that.
    We are doing that.

  8. coastalwebdev on

    Do you think Trump’s team and the oligarchs running America even noticed the no kings day protest? I think they probably just partied down with some meth, some underage girls, and largely ignored it.

    It’s not like Americans actually did anything to stop them.

  9. Watching from afar the US implode under the weight of its own extraordinary stupidity is fascinating.

  10. TijuanaSunrise on

    It’s going to be insane watching marines die pointlessly while Trump and Hegseth with straight faces describe the action as a monumental, unparalleled success

  11. Oh surprise, right on cue, the pedophile trump and his drunkard designated oral giver kegsbreath are starting a war, so they can try to cancel elections.

  12. mildurajackaroo on

    If the money spent in Iraq and now this war were directed towards social programs, the US would have had by now, no homeless problem and universal healthcare

    What a sick and violent country. Disgusting.

  13. Sorry not up to speed on my American constitution…. Doesn’t congress need to approve going to war?

  14. Weeks of ground operations is likely to be months and years if modern history is anything to go by.

  15. We’ve seen this before “weeks” will become months and months possibly years. I dont know what the administration’s objectives are as they seem to shift by the week but regime change from a govt willing to murder its on citizens will not come quick, easy, or cheap. They’re in survival mode with nothing to lose as they’re essentially a pariah in the global order, which is why incentivizing probably would’ve been a better approach.

    One last thing Trump sure does seem to relish unforced error. I dont think I have ever seen someone (a politician atleast) shoot themselves in the foot as much as this guy, with all the instances of controversy hes caused by saying the wrong things, the unnecessary political stunts, and questionable policy decisions

  16. They are going to do it and do it with the minimal amount of soldiers necessary.  Which is only going to make things worse.

  17. So, trump voters, how about that whole no more wars stuff? All good now because your pedo rapist idol says it’s cool?

  18. bastardnutter on

    It’s gonna be a bloodbath. A trained and highly motivated army against a foreign invader. It’s what the Iranians and the IRGC have been training for decades. This has the potential to be akin to the 1979–1989 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

    Trump and his cronies don’t know how dumb this is, and they’re the only ones who don’t know.

  19. Saw a quote that said “the worst thing about the first few weeks of a war in the Middle East is the first few years”

  20. Republicans gonna lose 60-70 seats if they go for boots on the ground, even republicans said so.

  21. GarlicThread on

    The fucking russians also prepared for weeks of ground operations. It’s been 4 years. And it’s next door.

    Iran is 9 time-zones away from the US.

  22. I think the plan is now to send in ground troops intentionally unprepared so that they are massacred by the Iranian response in the hopes that it will gain some public sentiment against Iran.

  23. How’s that whole “no new wars,” “no more forever wars,” “peace president,” “Kamala will send your kids to war” thing working out for ya now?

  24. philip_laureano on

    They fell victim to one of the classic blunders, which is to never get involved in a land war in Asia 😅

  25. thenerdwrangler on

    US troops are about to find out how fun FPV drone warfare is and they are not prepared for it.