Iran From Ground War: MAGA Confronts Ghosts Of Gallipoli

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We trust that some of our TKC denizens will appreciate historical context as we hope & pray for peace and that Americans will remain safe. 

Meanwhile . . .

It's important to notice the widening age-gap amongst Republicans with old school conservatives supporting the military action against Iran whilst younger right-wing voters have started to voice increasingly louder skepticism.  

And so . . . 

Rather than stick our heads in the sand, we acknowledge historical parallels that are trending as American soldiers amass in the Middle-East . . . 

Check-it:  

"Trump called British Prime Minister Keir Starmer “not Winston Churchill” for declining to commit British forces to the war effort. Trump meant it as contempt. What he produced instead was an argument — because Churchill’s career, examined without the mythology, is the most precise warning available against exactly the war Trump is now fighting.

"Not one warning. Two. And they run in opposite directions. In February 1915, Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty. He believed that the Ottoman Empire, if struck hard enough at the right point, would collapse. The Dardanelles Strait was that point. The plan was that breaking through it would allow Britain to resupply Russia, relieve the Western Front and potentially shorten the war by years.

"The naval assault began in March. Mines destroyed ship after ship. When the navy failed, troops landed at Gallipoli — on beaches different from those planned, and behind schedule. Eight months later, the survivors were evacuated. Tens of thousands were dead. Churchill was removed from his position and banished to the back benches."

Another take that's even more pessimistic . . . 

"It’s at this point the Dardanelles analogy becomes operative. The only reason the Gallipoli campaign was attempted in 1915 was because the most powerful navies of the day had failed to force a passage through the narrow Dardanelles, the shores of which were controlled by Ottoman forces. In this case, even 18 battleships—including the 381-mm guns of the new battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth—failed to sufficiently suppress defensive artillery.

"In constricted waters, the combination of basic artillery and basic naval mines inflicted such damage on the world’s most advanced navy and its French ally that they had to retire.

"So, an attempt to force passage will present the United States with the same fallback option that Britain and France had in 1915: to take the littoral by force. But occupying the Gallipoli peninsular doesn’t begin to compare with occupying more than 150 km of Iranian shoreline, from Qeshm island in the west to the Port of Bandar Abas and down the coast to Koo Mobarak, where the strait widens . . ." 

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