| I believe that you can't compare the present Arab-Israeli conflict to the First Gulf War or most other wars for that matter.
On one hand, we have the conventional army like the Iraqi Republican Guard had. They had their tanks and their jets and so on. The aim of any conventional army is to improve through use of technology. Always producing bigger and better machines. But the way to beat technology is to counter it with technology. Iraq had one of the best armies in the region at the time but it was no match for our army, the most technologically superior fighting force in the world.
On the other hand, we have the Hezbollah guerillas. These guerillas and any type of insurgency is as low tech as a fighting force can get. Armed only with assault rifles, machine guns, and should-launched rockets, they practice hit and run techniques, never standing up and fighting a conventional war. They realize the fact that they will be defeated if they do so like what happened to the Vietcong during the Tet Offensive. We utterly destroyed them when they stood up and fought. You can’t fight a low tech enemy such as the Hezbollah Guerillas or the Insurgents in Iraq by simply throwing vast amounts of technology at them unlike against a conventional army. It just doesn't work that way. |