• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That would change overnight if we had personel getting pasted by IDF while dropping off supplies.

    One of the big differences between now and USS Liberty is by how much coverage these things get. It would be hard to keep it out of the media.

    Besides which, LCACs have been used before in exactly this role. (They’re hovercraft designed to drop off tanks in a beach. IIRC, they were used in Africa?)

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      8 months ago

      That would change overnight if we had personel getting pasted by IDF while dropping off supplies.

      We had citizens in the war zone for a month until Egypt made a corridor. NPR was talking directly to them as they begged the US government to help them get out.

      The US isn’t going to stare down the IDF at all