Matthew Kroenig: Trump ‘Comfortable With Short Sharp, Decisive Uses of Force’ as Pentagon Sends 2,500 Marines to Middle East
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KROENIG: “What is interesting, because when you think about Trump‘s peace through strength approach, it seems like he‘s comfortable with short sharp, decisive uses of force, like against Venezuela or the bombing of Iran‘s nuclear facilities last year. But he‘s always been skeptical of long, drawn out military campaigns. So I think many analysts, including me, thought there‘s no way he‘s going to put in large numbers of ground forces. And I still think that‘s the case. So what might this smaller unit be doing? And the couple of ideas, one, maybe doing something on kharg island to deal with Iran‘s oil. The other may be we know that Iran is hitting shipping coming through the strait from the coast. So maybe it‘s going after Iranian drones and missiles near the coast or we think that Iran still has stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. You know, the nuclear program was the key issue from the beginning. And so”
