▲ | bigyabai 7 hours ago | |||||||
Operations are defined by goals. If you want to invade or launch a special forces op into your enemy territory, you need a small and attainable goal. Not "eliminate all nuclear threats" but more like "clear this area of nuclear materiel" in any areas you consider suspect. Otherwise you end up deploying troops that never come home. Israel's state government is absolutely filled to the brim with war hawks - but they're not stupid. The situation they want to contain is too large to fix with IDF ground forces, they necessarily have to involve US force structures to seriously challenge Iran. And even then, it feels likely that we'd be looking at an Afghan War situation where guerrilla combat absolutely shreds the modern forces the further they push in. | ||||||||
▲ | mjburgess 7 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
"they're not that stupid" has not been a good predictive theory of western foreign policy since the victorian era | ||||||||
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