The positions are what is important.
If this blows up into a full scale World War, those positions will be fortified with many more “assets” that were not required to “keep the peace” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We will also go to a whole new level of whats allowed militarily (Think WWII), the gloves would come off. the little excursions in the two countries your thinking of are nothing more than a minor annoyance for the full might of the Armed Forces.
Hell, the hard part of using another country as a base for offensive military operations has already been done.
You put too much stock in the PR that the dims propagate.
“If this blows up into a full scale World War, those positions will be fortified with many more “assets” that were not required to “keep the peace” in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Why do you think that we have a bunch of assets that are readily available to use in a World War?