[CaptainCrunch]

The Viet Cong were brutal but exceptionally gutsy light fighters, they would carry very little in terms of food and ammunition, but were the definable insurgent fighters. And as time fades people forget that they were fairly brutal in their dealings with civilians and prisoners. They didn't rely on transportation or heavy weapons and exposed the American fascination with firepower as a flawed strategy when it isn't paired with good leadership and strong field craft.

I would argue that the average ISIS soldier is a different kind of animal. They are like a modern day equivalent of the middle ages crusader type army combined with a willingness to die to achieve their groups goals. But for the most part I would argue that their training is rudimentary at best, I don't know if they're ably lead beyond some schmuck pointing at a map and sending as many of his men running at it as possible.

While airpower is easy to overcome when your an army that doesn't rely on tanks and AFC's and things like overfire and heavy artillary, an army like this probably wouldn't do well against a modern and well trained military.

Remember that ISIS isn't like an insurgency army, they are an army of conquest who uses absolute terror to cow their conquests.

And not to take anything away from the Kurds and others fighting ISIS but they aren't exactly a lavishly trained and specifically recruited military formation.

The difficulty in waiting for ISIS to take territory and dig in is that digging it out would be similar to what we saw in Iraq after America rolled over the army there and then fought an insurgency that was very much like thousands of nests of vipers.

The only way to beat ISIS is to catch them in the middle of an offensive, find a way to take the initiative and force them into the open.

But at this point we're almost past that phase in ISIS' offensive.