Clausewitz showed two centuries ago that bloodless war is a dangerous illusion. Absolute victory requires concentrating overwhelming force to pursue and destroy the enemy completely. Yet in the Strait of Hormuz, our fear of casualties paralyzes us from putting boots on the ground against the IRGC. To eliminate this threat, we must replicate Operation Desert Storm and deploy an unstoppable land invasion to defeat them directly. We will fund this campaign by auctioning Iranian oil fields to the highest bidders. Afterward, we can offer the Iranian people a path forward: those who serve twenty years in the United States military will earn their American citizenship.
Iran has 210 billion barrels of oil, with a current value of $16 trillion. Everyone accused America of fighting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to obtain oil resources. We never did take any oil and lost huge sums of money liberating those countries just to see it go to waste. It’s time to be smarter and look to how the Roman empire approached the liberating and civilizing the world. It will require brutal tactics and strategies that seem heartless, but actually save many lives and bring vast populations into the modern world.
Von Clausewitz thought it was a fool’s errand to try to have a bloodless war. Who is Von Clausewitz? One of the most famous military strategists of all time who lived two centuries ago and spent his entire life at war. He pointed to many examples from his time of foolish populations and leaders who thought they could get away with “humane” versions of war, then were smashed by those who held no such compunctions.
Americans and the west need to set aside the Disney and Netflix propaganda we are drowned in and recognize that when we fight, we need to go all in including troops on the ground.