Anotherangle
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.......................................................................................The country which is going to be attacked knows that in both cases defeat is his for sure.
So what it should do according to experts here? Surrender is an ego issue!![/SIZE]
One of the best questions I have read on this forum. It is said that the victory is not only for power but also for the brave, agile, and intelligent.
(Although I am not an expert,) any way my two cents as a member:
1. I think the real problem was the courage and lack of creativity.
2. The generals are promoted not because they are brilliant like Napoleon, but because they please their seniors; they might be efficient but not thinkers and certainly they are not revolutionary especially in dictatorships.
3. There was some lack of nationalism and political will in the cases you mentioned.
4. . The lack of resources is an issue, but it was not that big issue in the first Iraq war: Iraq managed to jam US AWACS with French equipment just a few days before the war started; that opportunity could have been used for massive preemptive airstrike that could give Iraq some breathing space and might have prolonged the war and brought some respect to Iraqi commanders, but they were not very intelligent nor agile nor brave enough.