I am no fan of that salami guy

The one Trump blew up. That general was the one ordered the shootings of Iraqi protesters.

Be that as it may, the Trump v Iran thing is at least a neutral for everyone else, no one is taking our side except the Saudis.  I am having a hard time figuring out how we fight Iran on Iraqi territory. The Iraqis are either mixed or neutral, there is not much behind our backs, and this is a drone war. What are a bunch of troops going to do, huddled from some drones buzzing?

The logistics make no sense, the general will soon have troops in Arabia, much safer and return to the norm, drone v drone. NATO has exited the scene.

There is no there, there. Nothing there forms a coalition of anything, so there is no real battle ground, nothing for the troops to defend, the western civilians are gone. It devolves into a drone war over Iraq.

My target list is bigger than your target list:

President Donald Trump said late Saturday the U.S. has identified 52 Iranian sites that it would hit if Tehran retaliates against the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, a day after saying the U.S. hadn’t made the move to “start a war.”


Trump’s comment came after the U.S. and Iran traded threats following the deadly drone strike against the Islamic Republic’s most prominent military man, with Tehran promising a protracted response.

Iranian drone developers are working over time, those skies will become increasingly dense with little hunter killers.  It is an odd one, soldiers play a minor role. Force protection for Iran means kep their little done factories spread out, in a longer war. That is much harder for the US military with huge chunks of complex hardware exposed everywhere.  Copters already are at risk in the environment, it is not long for those drones to reach 6,000 feet; enough to put fighters at risk.