War with Iran?

[hollodero]

(06-18-2019, 11:04 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Bottom line when we fought Iraq they had the 4th largest Army in the world and every Keyboard General stated how the vaulted Republican Guard would be a real challenge; they were not.

Nah, this is fair, but there are key differences. Maybe the US can totally demoralize Iranian forces with a few days of air attacks too; but I doubt that. Reasons were named. The Iranians do not fight with internal struggles, they are idelogically (and religiously) united. They prepared decades for a possible US invasion, so they sure will have some tricks up their sleeve. The country is larger, they have more military and quite certainly more partisan units. They will find US adversaries to equip them. There are mountains instead of desert, so there's way more possibility for ambushes and troop advances will be considerably slower.

...and maybe it still is a piece of cake, but to claim that as a certainty and mock everyone who disagrees with that takes it a bit far, imho. No one thinks the US will lose, but there's a real possibility for way more American lifes lost. I find it unreasonable to totally dismiss that.