• FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    381 year ago

    Judging by the number of western vehicles lost to mines in the last few weeks alone they do not perform the same fighting a peer military with access to large amounts of modern equipment vs ill equipped militias fighting an insurgency

      • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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        311 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

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          1 year ago

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