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Originally Posted by polak
Wouldn't Isreal absolutely flatten ISIS?
I can't imagine it'd be much of a fight?
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I've had this argument a lot lately, first of all that I'm questioning the effectiveness of the IDF versus its formidable reputation. As the Military leaders of their previous wars in the 60's and 70's and early 80's where they pounded everything have gone into retirement or died off, the new crop of leaders aren't the same caliber, we've seen that in the last two conflicts where the IDF did struggle in terms of their goals and effectiveness.
Isreal's smartest move is to stay militarily as far away from this as possible. Even if the West goes in to a ground battle, the minute Isreal goes in any Muslim/West coalition would shatter and all of the Muslim world would turn even harder on Israel.
ISIS is like Hydra, I don't think you can fight them in a conventional fashion. ISIS is basically a ground based Infantry that zerg rushes everything and uses suicide bombers in a liberal fashion. But if a Western Power comes into that region which is based around mobility, armor and heavy air support, ISIS/ISIL will transition into an insurgent army made up of thousands of small viper nests and attempt to bleed the enemy to death via a thousand small bites.
Frankly and I don't advocate this, but the only way to beat ISIL is to treat them like a ant infestation and burn them out, but that strategy would cause a humanitarian and civilian casualty crisis that would rival anything that we've seen to this point in history.