“My suspicion is they will melt into the populace and we have nothing to strike except a toyota here or there....”
They will do that. If they cannot congregate and have to walk will they continue be an effective fighting force? If they’re not how will they be able to prosecute jihad or even defend themselves against their enemies?
The same way the Iraqis fought us for years. Terror, threats, bombings, intimidation of the populace, amphorus, swirling attacks that disappear when we show up.
They would be the definition of guerilla fighters. Our air power will be pretty useless...effective when we can but we were able to succeed only because we had ground assets.
I want it to work,,,but I do not think it will they way its being reported.