We didn’t fight to win, never tried to define win parameters, made no effort to achieve win parameters, leadership refused to identify or describe the enemy effectively, leadership also decided to try and institute liberal style “values” to Afghanistan i.e. gay pride and the like when the psychology of the area wouldn’t be accepting of it.
Then they turned it into a jobs program and social experiment beyond even the above, recall our troops having to show “courageous restraint” under fire so that we didn’t offend the enemy.
Yet war is the business of offending the enemy so badly they take their dolls, run home and then refuse to play with you anymore.
That’s part of what should have been learned, but our military leadership was and remains braindead to such realities.
We forgot how we fought in WWII with the brief exception of the first Gulf War when we destroyed Saddam's army in Kuwait.
Maybe Israel could be falling into that trap?
20 year war like that will degrade them.
They must have a plan to bring this to a conclusion if not they should get one
“wipe them out” mentality is not going to work just like in Vietnam or Afghanistan.
How do you do it? you can’t. The stubborn enemy with AKs and a few rockets can be surprisingly resilient.
The world is different to 1945.