| ▲ | surgical_fire 9 hours ago | |||||||
Tens of thousands of troops are not really enough to invade a country the size of Iran. The US used an order of magnitude more in Iraq, which had a third of the population, and a smaller and more geographically forgiving territory. | ||||||||
| ▲ | cjbgkagh 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
And the IEDs were in the ground not flying overhead. Asymmetric war has completely changed the math. | ||||||||
| ▲ | BLKNSLVR 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Yeah, but the Iranian armed forces have been obliterated... | ||||||||
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| ▲ | jasdfwasd 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Trump and Netanyahu believe they can win this one [1]: [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-wa... | ||||||||