“Even with preliminary intense bombing, the US cannot succeed. The Marine Expeditionary Unit will be destroyed,” he warned.
Asked where the real landing may take place, if not Kharg, Hogard emphasized that there is “no better place in Iran for landing,” and that “there should be no landing at all.”
In conditions where Iran’s missile capabilities are intact and they receive support from their Chinese and Russian partners, “any landing of troops, however [well] trained and brave they are, would be a disaster.”
Hogard doesn’t rule out a mutiny among US generals should the order be given to launch a ground invasion, and believes Washington is falsely implying that Iran wants to negotiate while the US itself secretly seeks “to get out of this nightmare.”