Another 10,000 US troops for Iran?

This is beginning to look like serious mission-creep. We already have two Marine Expeditionary Units arriving in the Middle East, plus 2,000-3,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division. Now it is reported in Washington that the Pentagon has sent the White House a plan to deploy 10,000 more troops. Is this part of Donald Trump's campaign to put more and more pressure on the Tehran regime, or is it a sign that the president is deciding whether to go for a full-blown invasion of Iran? But if that is the case, the US would need to send more than 200,000 troops. Iran's main fighting force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is at least 150,000-strong and could have up to 180,000 troops. Ok, most of Iran's military infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged. But there is still a huge fighting force available to take on the US. This bit-by-bit increase in ground-troop presence in the Middle East doesn't really make much sense, unless it's purely for one specific role, either the taking of Kharg Island, the oil terminal location, or trying to grab the enriched uranium from its bunkered storage sites. Whatever is the thinking, this war looks like a much longer-term operation that the Trump administration had in mind when it all started on February 28. PLEASE BUY AGENT REDRUTH, MY NEW SPY THRILLER. AMAZON, WATERSTONES, ROWANVALE BOOKS.