media reports, US intelligence agencies analyzed that a full-scale war on Iran by the US military would require 1.6 million troops. The U.S. military’s strength in the Middle East now stands at 60,000, of which 50,000 are combat troops. Iran alone has 520,000 regular troops, and the gap between the two sides is 1:9. At the same time, the United States needs 4 trillion US dollars in military expenditure.
because most of the US allies are opposed to a full-scale war on Iran. Therefore, once the war begins, the US military that goes to the meeting alone may suffer heavy losses. In particular, the U.S. military spent more than 2 trillion U.S. dollars in the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War, and now the U.S. debt reaches 3.1 trillion U.S. dollars. The United States does not have a few trillions to fight Iran.
Iran is a country with a population of 80 million, a larger land area and more complex terrain. If the US military wants to fully control Iran, it needs to invest a lot of ground forces and logistics forces. The logistics and transportation forces in the United States, all the way to the ground forces and security forces deployed in Iran, add up to 1.6 million troops.
From a realistic analysis, it is unlikely that the US military will engage in a full-scale war against Iran. At most, in local wars, the US military deployed B-1 strategic bombers as the main force. Now the latest and improved version of the B-Lancer strategic bomber can carry 24 long-range attack missiles. The F-35 stealth fighter also has the capability of built-in ground-penetrating nuclear bombs and has the ability to strike Iranian targets.
Judging from the actual situation, the B-1 strategic bomber took turns to carry out long-range missile attacks on Iranian targets outside the defense zone, and the F-35 stealth fighter with built-in ground-drilling nuclear bombs attacked Iran’s underground missile bases. Iran does not have the strength to intercept, and Iran will definitely suffer huge losses. In fact, Iran’s various speedboats do not have much combat effectiveness. U.S. armed helicopters, drones and gunboats can easily sweep a large number of Iranian armed speedboats on the sea.
However, Iran can also refrain from counterattacking US aircraft carriers and intercepting US fighter planes. A large number of Iranian ballistic missiles can directly attack the important targets of the opposite US allies such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait. From oil facilities, economic targets, to ports and airports can be the targets of Iranian missiles and drones.
Unless the US military can set up a full coverage THAAD and Patriot anti-missile system throughout the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. Otherwise, Iran’s full-scale missile counterattack cannot be stopped. Therefore, the United States and Israel are now conducting asymmetric operations against Iran.
First is economic sanctions that weaken Iran's power, followed by external suppression and maritime military blockade. The third is to train internal ghosts and opposition factions to carry out assassination, sabotage and assault operations on important Iranian targets and locations.
Iran and the United States and Israel are actually engaged in asymmetric warfare. Broadly speaking, the United States, Israel and Iran are actually engaged in war. The coastline has been blocked by US warships. This is actually a war in any era, but it is a new type of war.
