manclad
Well-Known Member
Iran and Iraq fought an 8 year war in the 1980s and neither side could claim a victory. Trench warfare,human wave attacks,poison gas attacks and ballistic missiles fired into major cities. Millions killed on each side,probably the most attritive war since WW1.Yeah but iran has planned and expected this for decades since GW2 also Iran would know america would relly on saudi and israeli air bases because they could tactically block and cause plenty of damage in the persian gulf and would have no quams bombing the two countries air bases hinder american air strikes.
Plus they have over the syrian conflict set up many splinter allies across the area, no telling what they have hidden in the dessert to repel air strikes even reaching them.
Add that to the fact Iran is a fuck off massive place and would certainly constript some of it's 82M citizens into service.
The yanks could probably win, with such a larger force and equiptment, but imho it would be along and bloody conflict of 2-3 years minimum, and would see people lose the will to continue.
In Iraq their army colapsed imediately, the revolutionary guard won't and Iran has trained in guerilla amd terrorist conflict for decades and trained others cannot see them falling without a real fight.
Then again I could be wrong and Iran would be crushed within a month.
So these so called elite units/military organisations couldn't beat each other over the course of almost a decade.
Along comes The American Blitzkrieg and one of these so called elite protagonists is overrun not once but twice. First time a politically limited victory achieved in 48 hours
Second time a complete and overwhelming American victory took a little while longer,all of 28 days.
Iran would not stand a cat in hells chance.