@avi2022 @HistoPol @argv_minus_one @w7voa the same was said about Viet Nam and Korea. The game changer was and continues to remain foreign direct support for asymmetric warfare.

No military, --not even the united states-- can resist or defeat sustained guerrilla tactics from a determined enemy that receives tactical, logistic, and military aid from a well funded foreign nation or coalition with access to a modern counterintelligence service. The us couldn't do it in iraq, they couldn't do it in Afghanistan, and no amount of aircraft carriers will do it for Israel.

When you kill indiscriminately the peacetime population you generate freedom fighters. Its why the hearts and minds doctrine was so critical in Iraq. Once the us abandoned it, they effectively lost the war.