S8 Ep383: General Blaine Holt argues that a military strategy regarding Iran should prioritize "combat enabling operations" designed to help local citizens overthrow the regime rather than pursuing a traditional occupation with boots on the ground. He advocates for
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
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General Blaine Holt argues that a military strategy regarding Iran should prioritize "combat enabling operations" designed to help local citizens overthrow the regime rather than pursuing a traditional occupation with boots on the ground. He advocates for a limited air and sea campaign that empowers the Iranian people to reclaim their country, followed by international support for security and economic reintegration once the dictatorship is removed.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Blaine Holt, United States Air Force, Retired General, |
| 0:05.8 | the mission for the air and sea campaign against Iran if it comes. |
| 0:13.2 | What is to be achieved? What will it look like afterwards? |
| 0:16.5 | Is bombing adequate? |
| 0:18.6 | It is destroying ground facilities in the hands of the dictators and their brutes |
| 0:24.0 | adequate? Blaine answers succinctly. More of this tonight. It actually just depends on what the |
| 0:30.6 | effects that you want to achieve are. So this is an age-old argument between my army brothers and sisters |
| 0:37.0 | and airmen, but we don't seek |
| 0:39.6 | to occupy Iran. We don't need to hold any of the real estate. We don't need to have boots on the |
| 0:43.8 | ground. We just need to conduct combat enabling operations to allow those burgeoning nascent |
| 0:50.6 | Thomas Jefferson's and Paul Revere's to rise to the front, take their country back, |
| 0:55.4 | and then we need to put our arms around them and help them in the days ahead with security, |
| 1:00.3 | economy, and welcoming them back into the World Commons. |
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