What would a US ground incursion into Iran actually look like?

What would a US ground incursion into Iran actually look like?

In his latest for The Australian, Dr Ian Langford argues it would not resemble Iraq in 2003, but instead be narrower, faster, and designed to deliver discrete strategic effects before Iran, and the wider region, could respond.

The most plausible approach centres on two simultaneous tasks: a short-duration Marine Corps operation to seize and disrupt critical infrastructure, and a highly sensitive special operations mission to recover nuclear material and deny the foundations of weaponisation.

Framed not as occupation, but as temporary denial—seize, suppress, destroy, disrupt, and withdraw—such an operation would rely on precision, intelligence, and strict limits of time and purpose.

As he puts it “Success would be measured not by territorial control but by speed of execution.”

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