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>>which the latter will easily win anyway There would be literally nothing easy about fighting Iran, unless your idea of fighting is just to glass the entire c
by gambiting 3y ago
>>which the latter will easily win anyway
There would be literally nothing easy about fighting Iran, unless your idea of fighting is just to glass the entire country. Because any kind of conventional warfare with Iran would make Iraq and Afganistan look like kindergarden in comparison. And that's not to say that Iran is some kind of superpower - it's absolutely not. Just that the terrain is extremely difficult, the army is actually decently equipped and trained, and it's a huge and very populous country.
- vizzier 3y agoYeah, Israel can't even control a 25km strip of land on its southern coast. War is never easy.
- all2 3y agoThe understanding I have of the Israeli military (and I could be very wrong, I haven't made a study of this) is that they tend to be surgical in their operations; so Mossad kills a key general or administrator, or knocks out key infra, etc., etc., rather than a full on conventional war.
- chuckadams 3y agoThat makes for some sticky pages in a Soldier of Fortune magazine, but has never once decided a war.
- hirsin 3y agoNothing about the last several months implies surgical strikes or key infra being targeted, and heavily leans towards glassing the enemy territory. Certainly they have that capability, and there's plenty of evidence that they do targeted killings, but that doesn't appear to be their MO when invading someone.
- int_19h 3y agoSurgical strikes are easy when your enemy has little ability to intercept them. However, Iran definitely has S-300, and quite possibly also some S-400 by now. Can Israel overwhelm them? How many Israeli planes will be shot down in the process? And how will Israel respond to those losses?
- thsksbd 3y agoWell as a quick study, look up "where's daddy" and "Lavender" as exposed by (ironically) Israeli media. Btw, one of the best sources in this conflict is Israeli media. Especially the Hebrew language one.
- mamonster 3y agoHow would they even fight Iran? They don't share a border, and you need an army of at least 500k to even properly man the entire western Iran border(Iran Iraq war was I think 600k on each side when there were actual offensives in the mid 80s, and 200k each side when it was just attrition war). The only way Israel can have a proper war with Iran is by attacking Hesbollah, but thats a whole different topic.
- autoexecbat 3y agoProbably just air strikes to make a point