Boots on the Ground is Coming: Three More Arabian Nightmare Scenarios

Can US Special Forces raid Iran's hidden nuclear stash, Seize Islands and Control the Straight of Hormuz without casualties like the Maduro operation?

At the time I started this substack on the Iran war, the possible scenarios for US forces landing in Iran, or going “boots on the ground,” have changed radically.

The most likely outcome at the time was that Special Forces and CIA paramilitary officers would link up with Kurdish-Iranian separatists of the KDPI and allow them and Iraqi Kurdish groups to spearhead an offensive that would start an uprising in Iran’s Kurdistan province. Trump even had phone calls with the Iraqi Kurdish leader, Bafel Talibani. But as quickly as that planning started, it ended when Trump made the statement that he would not support a Kurdish offensive into Iran.

I will leave off the fact that the United States has probably already had CIA paramilitary and Special Forces soldiers pre-positioned inside of Iran for combat search and rescue of downed pilots. That's just business as usual.

But the likelihood that the war won’t end until Pete Hegseth and Trump get a ground action worthy of a Michael Bay movie i…