/IRAN - US Marines Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Deployed to Middle East The US deployment of the Tripoli and its support ships provides the following capabilities: 1. Amphibious/helicopter/tilt-rotor landing operations; 2. Anti-shipping operations - ...
...both boarding ships and sinking them with anti-ship missiles; 3. F-35 multi-role warplanes; 4. Precision missile fire via #HIMARS; What would the US be looking to do with a primarily anti-shipping force? 1. Perhaps seize Kharg Island by holding the infrastructure itself - forcing #Iran to either destroy its primary means of energy export or hope in vain to someday get it back from the US; 2. Interdict ships by boarding them or by sinking them ensuring Iran's selective passage of the Hormuz...
... Strait becomes an entirely closed strait; 3. Additional F-35 warplanes needed to augment existing airpower in the region as maintenance walls are reached; 4. The use of HIMARS to augment current precision strikes into western Iran;
