The IRGC is waiting ...

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This is what awaits US troops if Bone Spurs and Pentagon Pete do the ultimate stupidity by putting boots on the ground as Iran's Revolutionary Guard is ready to defend their country. As per military doctrine, two points stand out. 1. The 3/1 ratio of offensive soldiers vs defensive holds true to achieve success in combat and 2. Indigenous forces don't have to win, just outlast. The war of attrition applies. 

Questions military professionals are asking are 1. How will the US insert ground forces as Iran's missiles are keeping combat ships hundreds of miles away. 2. How will the US put troops in regarding the strait as the strait is a shooting gallery thanks to the near vertical cliffs surrounding the narrow passageway. 3, Kharg island is tiny and situated close to Iran's mainland, ringed with ordinance and soldiers in place ready to be used as needs warrant and 4. Do you really think 7000 troops is enough?

The Official Flag of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The top text says: إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحِبُّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُقَـٰتِلُونَ فِى سَبِيلِهِۦ صَفًّۭا كَأَنَّهُم بُنْيَـٰنٌۭ مَّرْصُوصٌۭ "Surely Allah loves those who fight in His cause in ˹solid˺ ranks as if they were one concrete structure" (Quran 61:4).[1] The right text, also the group's motto, says: وَأَعِدُّوا لَهُمْ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ "Prepare against them what you ˹believers˺ can of ˹military˺ power" (Quran 8:60)[2] The left and bottom texts are in Persian.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has long exerted a strong, often underestimated power in the Middle East. With around 190,000 members, plus an estimated 450,000 reserves in the Basij paramilitary, the largest component of Iran’s Armed Forces also controls much of the country’s politics, intelligence and economy.

After an Israeli airstrike assassinated the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, US President Donald Trump called on the IRGC to lay down its arms in exchange for immunity. IRGC forces refused the offer, and with many more of its leaders killed over the last month, it shows no sign of giving up.

With Iraq’s invasion of Iran in 1980, the IRGC emerged as a frontline conventional combat force in tandem with the national military. They repelled Saddam Hussein’s attack by 1982, though the war continued for another 6 years. Many current IRGC commanders were young soldiers or officers at the time, and experienced firsthand how Iraq deployed chemical weapons against them while the West remained silent.

Trump’s recent attempts to foment Kurdish revolts will therefore likely meet with profound wrath from IRGC commanders, who have been fighting these ethnic rebel groups for decades.

Lessons from proxies

Through its regional proxies, the IRGC already has extensive experience of protracted wars of attrition against the US and Israel.

Many of these tactics were designed to wear down an occupying force, and will not be enough to thwart an immediate, high-intensity ground invasion. But if the US fails to achieve its (currently unclear) goals, it could find itself in yet another prolonged occupation and low-intensity war. If it does, the IRGC’s well-honed attrition tactics will be deployed extensively.

It already has.

IRGC's naval special forces of S.N.S.F. during Great Prophet IX

The Art of War is being ignored yet again.