• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    We could stop the Yemenis. But it would take far more manpower and material than anyone in the US is willing to commit right now. We could go to the fortress village concept; and just generally go full scale COIN. It would stop the attacks. It would also cost a trillion dollars over a couple years and probably turn into a transitional government and peacekeeping mission.

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      6 months ago

      We could stop the Yemenis

      The same way we stopped the Iraqis, the Afghanis, and the Vietnamese, sure.

      We could go to the fortress village concept; and just generally go full scale COIN.

      Trying to teach another generation of 19 year olds broken Arabic before throwing them into a literal mine field?

      We could try it. But I can’t imagine it would boost enlistment rates