Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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is that um would that work is that possible no but it wouldn't work and um you know this is a festival card first of all card as you know lies far and almost um on the other shore there are cliffs and then behind that it's barren very
very barren very with no vegetation um the hills and mountains a small range of mountains goes right down to the straits and so first of all is how would you get troops to carve i mean you can't sail them up the whole moves in fact the the what i understand is that that what they call i think meu the marine expeditionary unit
ship, HMS something or USS something, rather I can't remember his proper name, did arrive with 2,000 Marines on board, and Iran fired a couple of missiles across its bows, and it is now removed to about 1,000 kilometers off the Persian coast because it doesn't want to risk
moving any closer, which is what happened to the carriers.
They had to move further and further back so that they couldn't actually use the fighter to strike aircraft on their deck because it was too far.
They'd have to start refueling them even over the target, and that is an unacceptable risk for them.
So I don't think you could get troops there.
Could you land them on the borders?
Well, Kog Island is in artillery range of the Iranian side of the Hormuz.
And it's certainly within ballistic missile.
So your troops would be there and they would have both missiles and they would have artillery fire all the time.
How would you resupply them?
How would you deal with them?
Would you create a sort of an air base by the back?
Well, actually, the Iranians would allow that because they, in the Iran-Iraq war, they were specialists in opening corridors and luring the Iraqis to go in their corridors because they thought they were unprotected.
And then they closed corridors.
corridor, and then they killed the troops in it.
The Iraqi has a big military.
It is a million men under arms, and the Basij are near another million.
They would, I think, not find it difficult.
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