‘High risk’: A US Marine colonel’s take on sending troops into Iran

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Former US Marine Colonel Andy Milburn breaks down why an amphibious landing along the Iranian coastline is a tactical dead-end, how Tehran’s decentralized "Mosaic Doctrine" is designed to survive Western airstrikes, and why the US Navy is structurally unprepared to clear heavily mined shipping lanes.

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CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Andy Milburn, former US Marine colonel @andymilburn8

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