ISIS Defeated?

[Dill]

(01-18-2019, 06:25 PM)Au165 Wrote: We didn’t continue to suffer casualties in Germany 20 years after declaring victory which in itself I think shows how difficult Me conflicts have been for us. Permenant bases I think escalate the aggression.

That's because Germany was a country. When the government/army surrendered, then everyone followed suit down the chain of command (except for a couple of die hard Nazis here and there, who were still killing Americans up to four weeks after surrender).

There is no chain of command in Afghanistan that extends beyond a half dozen cities.  Iraq and Syria are more like Germany during the 30 years war, with differing "princes" contending against one another on a map that doesn't really have clear or rational national boundaries, as outside forces ally themselves with one faction or another for their own interests.

Permanent bases would escalate hostility in some places (southern Iraq, Yemen, Eastern Afghanistan) but reduce it in others (Northern Iraq, Qatar, NorthWestern Afghanistan, Bharain).