Salute!
Hey guys! Be nice. O.K. to strongly disagree with tactics and strategy, and personal experience adds flavor and an amount of credibility/rationale, but ad hominen crapola is poor form.
I think many folks think too highly of Kharg Island and should not believe it will be easy real hard to take on the ground. It is not Japan at the end of WW2, and surface reinforcement is not possible with air supremacy by U.S. and "friends".
From our experience in these matters, you don't need to storm the beaches and have an outpost on every street corner. The complex has very visible weak points that can indeed be eliminated by air, and are not too hard to deal with by special ops folks if need be. Secondly, although well over 90% of the country's oil is passing thru that bottle neck, the dedicated fringe religious element in charge there for over 40 years coulld care less about a viable economy for the masses they kill for demonstrating or defecting. Their goal is not economi domination but religious. The masses could revert to 19th century conditions and such for all they care. The oil $$ helped advance the development of nuclear weaponry despite international, but inneffective agreements, and the $$ did not for big social programs or better highways/health care, manufacturing or good trading deals/commerce.
It's just a cryin' shame more pipelines into Oman were not built. China has a fair say on the existing pipline/port facilities that bypass Homuz now, but maybe anothe two or three Gulf states will help with more.
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Gums...
Last edited by gums; 21st March 2026 at 13:54.