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Comment by surgical_fire

16 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.

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cjbgkagh  15 hours ago

And the IEDs were in the ground not flying overhead. Asymmetric war has completely changed the math.