Unlearned Lessons: US Troops Potentially Deployed to Iran Amid Concerns
As the US-Israel conflict with Iran escalates, experts warn of the potential for catastrophic consequences echoing past military blunders. This article examines the unfolding situation.
The United States' potential deployment of thousands of troops to Iran has sparked concerns that the country has failed to learn from the lessons of past military interventions. In 2003, the US claimed its Iraq incursion would be brief, but it ultimately became one of the worst-planned wars in American history. Now, as tensions escalate between the US, Israel, and Iran, the world braces for the possibility of another disastrous conflict.
Illegal Aggression and Poor Planning
The US-Israel war on Iran has been denounced as a colossal blunder and a blatantly illegal act of aggression that continues to erode international law and norms. The war has been launched with magnificently poor planning, as the United States seems unprepared for Iran's use of every means at its disposal to restrict shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This disruption to the international supply of energy and certain necessary commodities has sent the global economy teetering on the brink of collapse, with the United States and Israel seemingly mortgaging the futures of many poorer nations around the world, particularly in Asia and Africa, for their own imperial adventurism.
Source: The Guardian
