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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | January 31st, 2026: American Firepower Gathers at Iran’s Doorstep & The Cost of Putin’s War · 31 Jan 2026 podcast

So this is a threat that would, and of course, in 2024, they launched those drones as part of their combined strike on Israel a couple of times, taking ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones and launching them all at once in sequence at Israel.

So these are threats to U.S.

forces and our ships and bases.

As far as actual ground military forces, I mean, they have one.

They have a traditional military and they have the Revolutionary Guard Corps.

You wouldn't want to get into a ground war with Iran.

That would be strategically insane for the United States.

It would pit their strengths against our weaknesses on their territory.

But you can do a lot of damage to their command and control, communications, their ability to move around.

And we talked about that Navy, the IRGC Navy, not the traditional Navy, where they have ports, they have command and control, they have small boats, they can go out, they can harass, they can try to explode, they can try to board.

They have some, let's call it...

spec ops, style ops that they've run on the waters.

You've seen some of these videos where they seize tankers by helicopter landing along with fast boats alongside.

So they have these asymmetric warfare capabilities that they've developed to be able to harass, extort, threaten the United States and others in the Gulf.

But we have...

We have pretty good targeting solutions for a lot of it, I would expect.

Things that are mobile, things that are already dispersed will be harder.

That'll be dynamic targeting.

You probably have to see them shoot first and then hit them very quickly, which we obviously have the capability to do.

Yeah, I think it's a mixed bag here.

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