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Mike Drop

Boots on the Ground in Iran? This Ends Like Iraq… | Ep. 284 | Pt. 1

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

News, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Politics

4.96.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Former intelligence officer, NGA Chief Technology Officer, and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution Dr. Anthony Vinci joins Mike Ritland on Mike Drop to unpack America’s high-stakes Iran moves. As deception returns, ships reposition, and Marines surge into the region, Vinci draws hard lessons from Iraq: boots on the ground may deliver victory but at the brutal price of prolonged insurgent warfare that Iran is already incentivized to drag out and amplify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:20.1

We've rediscovered how to have deception and to keep adversaries from understanding our true intentions,

0:27.8

well also moving ships around the world and doing those things that you have to do.

0:32.8

So now we're moving, you know, Marines into the region, and it could go either way.

0:38.6

My lesson learned from Iraq is that as soon as you're putting troops on the ground, you

0:42.9

now open yourself up to what we saw in Iraq, which is insurgent-like or guerrilla-like

0:48.5

tactics, which I do think we can still obtain victory against those kind of tactics? But it's very painful.

0:56.0

And Iran in this situation has a lot of incentive to make that last as long as possible,

1:01.0

look as painful as possible.

1:03.0

I don't think America wants that.

1:05.0

So boots on the ground, I hope not.

1:08.0

You see a scenario where it's both realistic to expect and make sense to have actual American troops in the ground there?

1:16.9

Yeah, it's funny because...

1:21.7

I have four dogs, and they've eaten all types of different food and we recently found

1:32.0

team dog like believe this spring so we've been on it for a year.

1:37.5

Seeger was on it first and Tiller was on it and then we put the Goldens on it and I mean all

1:43.0

the dogs eat less food the The dog's coats are way better.

1:46.0

Everything about team dog is, I mean, I'm very impressed.

1:51.0

My dog trainer Justin Allen, he uses it on all like 60 dogs that are there for training.

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