{"id":22456,"date":"2026-03-30T01:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/former-centcom-commander-us-military-has-been-working-on-iran-ground-raid-plans-for-years\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:33:24","slug":"former-centcom-commander-us-military-has-been-working-on-iran-ground-raid-plans-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/former-centcom-commander-us-military-has-been-working-on-iran-ground-raid-plans-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Centcom commander: US military has been working on Iran ground raid plans for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/AP22077680778692-e1774821755749.jpg?w=900\" \/><br \/>Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), said Sunday that the U.S. military has been working on plans for a ground raid in Iran for years, as President Trump is reportedly considering sending troops into the war. \u201cMargaret, for many years we&#8217;ve considered options along the southern coast of Iran,&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5806811-mckenzie-us-iran-raids\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), said Sunday that the U.S. military has been working on plans for a ground raid in Iran for years, as President Trump is reportedly considering sending troops into the war. \u201cMargaret, for many years we&#8217;ve considered options along the southern coast of Iran,&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}