EXCERPT:
HERTLING: “I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what these two, actually three, two MEUs and one brigade are going to do. Now, the 82nd Airborne has also deployed their command post, which indicates to me that more are going to come in. But first of all, where are you going to put them as they all pull together? Because you can't put them immediately into Iran. They don't have the logistics support to go in there. Where are they going to go? What are their missions going to be? What are the following follow-on forces? Because these three forces, two MEUs and a brigade, are designed to open a fight but not to finish one."
SCARBOROUGH: "Right."
HERTLING: “And so we're thinking about putting a lot of forces on the ground. This is an opening gambit, and it's interesting that it's taking place while we're still bombing and conducting peace talks in Pakistan.”