The White House and the Pentagon are considering sending at least 10,000 additional combat troops to the Middle East in the coming days, according to a senior U.S. defense official.

Why it matters: If the Trump administration decides to send extra troops, it will significantly increase the number of combat soldiers the U.S. has in the region. It is another signal that a U.S. ground operation in Iran is being seriously prepared.

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/27/iran-war-trump-pentagon-more-troops-middle-east

Kind of weird to consider sending more combat troops to a theater of war where the war has already been won. Or am I missing something?

Like Vietnam, when US men and women begin coming home in boxes at a time when their families struggle to buy enough petrol to drive to the funeral services.
Well, Trump will suffer the same fate as LBJ and for the exact same reason. The blow-hard, happy war talk, coming from the White House and "War Department" is reminiscent of the same "happy war talk" that came out of DefSec Robert McNamara and his body-counting generals during the Vietnam War. Although they won most of the tactical battles and killed untold number of civilians in the process, the war was lost before it had begun. Same with Trump's foreign adventure into Iran. He'll be sucked into Iran just like Kennedy/LBJ were sucked into Vietnam and the outcomes with be the same.

"Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it."