The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is expected to arrive between March 23 and 27, with the potential mission of seizing strategic islands off Iran’s coast to serve as bases for securing the waterway. We will see if this even gets off the ground, but I am skeptical that a force this size can hold on long. Gallipoli at best, Alamo scenario at worst.
Apache attack helicopters, are equipped with Hellfire missiles, have long had the mission of striking Iranian mine-laying boats from Gulf states in the region. The A-10 was developed to provide close air support for U.S. ground troops but has now been repurposed to strike ships at sea. — Once again the wrong weapon for a non-existent strategy. Iran can close Hormuz with a dozen drones and the occasional missile.
Heavily-armed A-10 warplanes, known as the Warthog, along with Apache attack helicopters are now engaged across the southern flank, targeting fast-attack watercraft in the Strait of Hormuz. Again I ask, what fast attack watercraft?
The 90–95% drop in volume claimed by CENTCOM earlier in the month was probably a temporary lull as Iran repositioned its remaining launchers into hardened sites. (covered in Tuesday’s post) Independent satellite analysis suggests that a significant portion of the “80% destruction” claimed by the IDF actually hit high-fidelity decoys. Also Iran has switched to operating more drones which works against Gulf State and American bases targets.
Iran has successfully set up mobile, underground units able to fire at steady rates. Iran used that quiet period to move their remaining ~100-120 heavy launchers into “Super-Hardened” facilities.
Despite fewer launchers, the lethality per strike has increased. Iran’s shift to cluster warheads has allowed a single missile to impact multiple locations simultaneously, compensating for the lower volume of launches.
Iran is utilizing its Zolfaqar and Dezful road-mobile launchers. These decentralized units move from hardened tunnels to pre-surveyed launch spots, fire, and return underground in under 10 minutes, often before coalition drones can re-task for a strike.
Zolfaqar missiles on a Truck
The Zionist contingent is so frustrated that they are morphing toward targeting energy infrastructure. This is another monumental fuck up as it invites retaliation.
Grok adds concerning the Houthis. Given Saudi Arabia’s continued support of the Zio war effort, this would also suggest a flanking of SA and severing the Red Sea oil shipments.
-Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sare’e declares full solidarity with Iran against U.S. and Israeli aggression, announcing plans to target American ships in the Red Sea as part of a broader “Ummah war” to prevent regional control by Israel.
-This marks an escalation from prior Houthi rhetoric of readiness, amid early March 2026 reports of Iran’s proxies activating in response to U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, though no immediate retaliatory attacks from Yemen were confirmed prior to this statement.
– The announcement aligns with Houthi strategy of leveraging Red Sea disruptions, potentially spiking global shipping costs by 20-30% based on 2023-2025 patterns, while drawing U.S. naval responses that could broaden the conflict.
To reach kharg any amphibious force needs to traverse through hormuz gauntlet FIRST??
They could stage from northwestern coast of Saudi Arabia along the Persian Gulf.
“X has blocked my ability to embed posts.”
Could you take a screenshot, crop it and use it in an IMG tag to link to the original?
Twitter is just SMS, plus a web server for pictures and sharing. If everyone just ran their own web server we could subscribe to one another’s RSS feeds and Twitter would be ancient history.
The link I added goes to the original.
Depending on where you live in the world, I think regular old ChatGPT (I am no AI expert) supplies pretty reasonable analyses on difficult topics. Quite detailed and I have to admit quite amazing what AI can do (for an old Luddite like me).
Type in your part of the world where you live and simply ask what happens to food supply, medicine, oil etc. if the SOH is closed, or in addition other key canals or waterways are closed due to the threat of having been mined (even if they were not the threat can be enough to disrupt for some length of time.)
This post is not entirely on point but hopefully useful. Fantastic interview with an Iranian journalist who has offered incredible analysis from the Iranian POV– for example, did you know that Coup-Wait! and Iran shared the oil field that US/IsRealHell bombed on the Iran side but since even before the war began due to sanctions Iran was not able to do proper upkeep on its outdated equipment and Kuwait stole about 700 billion dollars worth of the shared oil field since Iran could not get in there to get their share. Must hear interview for at least the first half and he speaks very rapidly with a brilliant logic, wide vocabulary and totally hip hair style:
Iran OBLITERATES Saudi Arabia & Qatar’s Oil Sites, DOWNS US F-35 | Ali Alizadeh
X blocked me from posting period although i still get to like and repost…claiming to stop censoring my azzz !
Very telling that they have known this strait was a problem for the longest time and didn’t put any true alternative pipelines in place for this day
That combined with fact that Iran doesn’t hit rothschild targets (congress, scotus of israel…) makes one think that all the players are controlled and this entire mess is kabuki theater leading to the same things the synagogue of satan got during the scamdemic
You might be onto something…
https://x.com/KHARKIV_RULIT/status/1942354319090548959