And has that antipersonnel warfare won the Ukraine war for either side yet?
Bombing Ukraine has hardened its resistance against Russia. As always happens, especially when civilian collateral casualties occur.
First, let’s get clear that you continue to quote me out of context. Let me make this perfectly understandable for you and anyone else who wants to confuse quoting me out of context or making assumptions about my political views on this matter (our forum’s loss of nested quotes can be confusing to lazy readers, true) again:
You are quoting a conversation about conditions necessary for a nation-state to fail.
Regarding your ignorance of wars of attrition, let’s start with a basic definition and background so that you know what you are witnessing in Ukraine and can maybe write with substance instead of predicable red herrings:
Attrition Warfare (wikipedia)
Now let’s expand on your false equivalency between the Russo-Ukrainian war, which is an
existential war for all of Ukrainian sovereignty, as Russia has made it plainly clear that it intends to subsume the entire state and population of Ukraine and the current war beinwaged against the Khomeini Regime.
This US-Israeli war is targeting the
Khomeini Regime (and by extension the IRGC)
within Iran with the hope that a regime change will be effected
. The remnants of the Khomeini Regime will and have already begun to propagandize about how this campaign is an existential threat to Iran, which could very well come to pass based on just how deeply the state fails.
Some analysts in Jerusalem seem to believe so
The current conflict with Iran will only become more severe as the
Islamic regime now understands that it is in an “existential war” threatening its continued rule, Brig.-Gen. (res.)
Yossi Kuperwasser, head of the Jerusalem Institute of Strategy and Security and former head of IDF military intelligence research, told
The Jerusalem Post on Saturday.
…emphasis mine as at least the obvious is true for the Khomeini theocracy’s ability to lead has already been severely disrupted via ongoing assassinations, removal of Iran’s force projection (Navy, ballistic missiles launchers and caches, and to a lesser extent the propaganda which is reaching deeply into YouTube amongst other social media outlets despite the country being severed from the web for days now.
And yet, in spite of the repeated failures, there's always some military analysis indicating that the future of war will be entirely airborne and there is no further need for a conventional army to have engagements. The reality is that this particular engagement shows few of the demonstrated benefits of drone use in Ukraine and every echo of those earlier claims
I’d hate to see these particular dogs unleashed by the US but stand by my prediction that they will be used, particularly enforced by Hegseth’s commentary on being “politically correct”, and based on what I’ve learned from partially declassified systems that were trialed in Ukraine, to US recon drone systems, and to just how brutally effective improvised drone warfare has proven to be in Ukraine’s highly asymmetric defense of its territory.
My take is that Hegseth is saying that the US is going to murder the fuck out of as many ‘identified military age males’ as is possible during the presidential grace period for waging war, along with every other military asset within the country’s borders, and as identified elsewhere.
You lost F-16s due to failure to set up the IFF interrogator configuration/notification.
Enable the IFF interrogator configuration/notification.
