US Intelligence Agencies wondering how to get it righter... It is easy to count tanks. Hard to count willing drivers.
The US intelligence community is carrying out a sweeping internal review of how it assesses the fighting power of foreign militaries amid mounting pressure from key lawmakers on Capitol Hill who say officials have failed twice in one year on the two major foreign policy crises faced by the Biden...
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I would make this observation - the one thing that everybody has got wrong is the willingness of the local community to fight the invader.
Vietnam fought the Chinese as hard as it did the Americans. Yugoslavians fought the UN and NATO (as well as each other). Israelis. Palestinians. Indians. Pakistanis. Rhodesians. Shona. Matabele. Afghans. Iraqis. The one common denominator, in my view, is that the sense of home negates any sense of time or any disparity in weaponry.
The Scotch-Irish and the Anglo-Irish still fight the Catholic Irish and each other. Wales and Scotland still fight England. The English still fight the French. Quebec still fights the Anglos. And now the outsiders even if they do speak a French.
Tanks and planes win battles. And Professionals in tanks and planes do better than Amateurs in tanks and planes. But tanks and planes, even with professionals, can't win wars. They can buy time and cool things down for a while. Maybe buy a truce, an armistice. But they can't win wars.
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