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Yes this.
The US Military is setup to fight and disable entire countries, not to sustain a ground occupation contested by native guerrilla forces.
Urban warfare and the fact that native attackers can hide in civilian populations will grind any army down. There are simply too many avenues of attack in an urban environment.
The Army wants to draw a line in the ground and completely dominate one side of the line and then deploy the capability to rain death on anybody within 100+ miles of that line. They don't want to be clearing a neighborhood house to house and trying to detect every IED and ambush when any civilian could be holding a grenade or gun and any pile of rubble or trash could be an explosive.
The only way this has been avoided in modern times is when Israel completely flatted most of Palestine, killing a large amount of civilians in the process. I don't think Donald Trump would try to avoid that option.
It always amazes me when someone thinks they will invade a country, and deal with the old guy, install their own guy, and the people will all just be okay with it? They may have hated the old guy, but their going to hate the new guy just as much. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Unless the invading force is willing to get genocidal, which Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller definitely is.
I don't know. It's not the 1960s anymore and Afghanistan is just an area built specifically to destroy empires. I fear that the modern war machine has capabilities now that it never had in the past. 24/7 satellite surveillance and AI monitoring. Digital forensics. Drones. Control of information networks and end points. They'd disappear these leaders in an instant and be able to trace their movement for the past month if they wanted. Any leader left to lead would be someone who is hurting their fight or leading them astray because it would be who America wanted to lead their revolution.