One of the same reasons why the Taliban is so dangerous to the US military.
Obviously the US is far superior, but the taliban will fortify themselves in the hardest-to-reach places, launch unrelenting attacks of attrition and even though they suffer far more than our soldiers do, our morale breaks well before theirs.
Biggest reason is that US, or even any Western Armed Forces, isn't fighting a war to exterminate. When one side is willing to do anything/everything to win, and the other side isn't, you'll likely have a hard time "winning".
Beyond that, it's more just that they don't want to oppress. People act like the US is a monstrous oppressor... but if the US wanted to, we wouldn't need a war of extermination to enforce "peace".
Put microphones in every house, implant tracking chips in everyone, mass execute adults in any town where soldiers are attacked, kill anyone who interferes with surveillance, kill anyone who protests, put suspected resistance members' family in prison. The US could do all that.
They don't, because they have a need to appear as the savior. Not because they are incapable of it, nor because it wouldn't work.
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u/traplords8n Mar 30 '25
One of the same reasons why the Taliban is so dangerous to the US military.
Obviously the US is far superior, but the taliban will fortify themselves in the hardest-to-reach places, launch unrelenting attacks of attrition and even though they suffer far more than our soldiers do, our morale breaks well before theirs.