What Would War With Iran Look Like?

In going to war with Tehran, the U.S. would face a military far superior to anything it’s faced since the Vietnam War

Jared Keller
GEN
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5 min readJun 24, 2019

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Iranian protesters demonstrate outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 2018. Photo: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

AAfter months of escalating tensions, the United States and Iran came closer to outright war in the last week than any other time in the past four decades. In a series of tweets on Friday, President Donald…

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Jared Keller
GEN
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