In the initial set-piece battles that baby will wipe out any opposition, I grant you that. Just as the US walked into Afghanistan and Iraq.
It’s holding on to what you’ve won afterward that is the difficult bit.
When the remit of your government doesn’t extend much outside the Green Zone, you aren’t in charge, no matter how fancy your drones and Apache gunships are.
At least the US forces had a safe base back in the homeland to refit their weaponry, rest and relieve their troops and buy their supplies. When the homeland is itself enemy territory it’s not so easy.
I completely agree. I’m just saying that most will not go guerrilla as you laid out out of basic morality...at first. It will depend on how brutal the govt would get trying to suppress them. And until they do, they are at an extreme disadvantage against these thing and the troops not opposed to wiping them out.
They will bite the hand that feeds them.... once the tax money is gone ? then what ?