• FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    No, but they haven’t faced massive minefields, helicopter gunships, artillery, electronic countermeasures, airstrikes, etc when occupying Iraq or Afghanistan. Fighting guerrillas and fighting a peer army are two entirely different beasts, and we see the proof in more western tanks being lost in 2 months than USA lost in 2 decades in Iraq or Afghanistan

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      1 year ago

      Also, America keeps losing wars to those guerilla fighters let alone an army with actual military doctorine