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hvb2yesterday at 3:59 PM1 replyview on HN

What makes you say that?

Where does this weird expectation come from that you can basically achieve your goals in a 2 week air campaign?

If the US wanted to they could probably do a lot of damage but, as you can see in Ukraine, taking over a country is a whole different thing. Unless you're willing to go in with the army and are willing to lose a LOT of people. And even then it'll take months or years for a single country


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antonvstoday at 4:48 AM

> Where does this weird expectation come from that you can basically achieve your goals in a 2 week air campaign?

From every US administration that’s started a war since about 1945.