Comment on Why doesn't Israel or the US try to fracture the relationship between Hezbollah and Iran? Instead of straight forward attack. Or make Iran see they are not worth the headache?

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setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Just send more weapons

All of your examples were of supporting existing local insurgencies in order to help them frustrate foreign conventional occupying forces. The occupiers did not have to choose between victory or death, but could at their leisure withdraw. Having that option creates increasing political pressure to withdraw over time. This is not the circumstance with Hezbollah.

Watch a Tom Hanks movie

Read Mao Zedong’s ‘Principles of Peoples War’ to understand the dynamics of a mid-20th century insurgency, and have a foundation for how that foundation has adapted with technology.

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