Will the US put ‘boots on the ground’ in Iran?

When US President Donald Trump casually floated the idea of putting US “boots on the ground” in Iran, he openly defied a longstanding presidential taboo. “Like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground’. I don’t say it,” Trump declared amid the ongoing US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

But while the political rhetoric from Washington hints at a sprawling conflict, military experts ar...