The actual U.S. ground combat force may be enough to seize a small, lightly defended target for a short period said Daniel Davis, a senior fellow and military expert at policy think-tank Defense Priorities. However, he said it would not be enough to sustain an operation against a country that has spent years fortifying underground missile cities, dispersing its forces and preparing for precisely this scenario.
“I think [the reinforcement] has a very low probability of success and very high probability of casualties,” Davis said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Thursday. Davis retired from the U.S. Army after 21 years of active service.
Unlike Venezuela, Iran is an enemy that is “very much capable of striking back,” with well-trained proxies across the region and control of the chokepoint through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil flows, Davis said. “This is a more massively difficult task than that in Venezuela,” he added.
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