Agree with same comment as above.

> This is true. 90% destruction of military is meaningless if 10% can wreck havoc on the strait. The cost associated with eliminating that 10% was deemed too much. That is Iran’s “win”.

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peder 8 hours ago | parent [-]

But we can eliminate 90% of senior leadership at any time. How do they measure that cost?

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defrost 7 hours ago | parent [-]

One facet of guerilla element asymmetric warfare is to just do without that whole reliance on hierachy.

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peder 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You arguably can't run gorilla large-scale manufacturing. There are obvious limits to what you can achieve when the opposition can run decapitation strikes every few months.

	▲	samrus 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		China and russia can. And they can send that shit to iran through pakistan and the caspian You gotta bet china and russia loved what happened here
	▲	defrost 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		and now you're into mesh logistics and distributed supply from outside backers in interesting terrain with long borders.