History Learner
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Maybe, but you're responding to a comment that was specifically about being able to fight. The US can also supply other countries with the fuel and weapons to make war, across oceans as we see in Ukraine,
Are you talking about the material means of being able to fight, or the combat capability of forces?
My point with my comment was that being able to stack bodies is meaningless because war is the continuation of politics by other means; you start hostilities in order to achieve clear strategic aims. Regardless of K/D of the U.S. Armed Forces in both Vietnam and Iraq, and it was favorable to be sure, they still failed in their goals and suffered strategic defeats in both, as admitted by the U.S. Army in their own studies.
so I'm not sure you've proven anything with the write up about Iran being able to do so for its neighbor.
Iran supplied the Iraq Insurgency, the Taliban against the U.S. and its proxies, mobilized 200,000 militia in Iraq and Syria against ISIS, Hezbollah against Israel, Gaza militants and the Houthis themselves. IRGC forces are currently deployed in Yemen, Syria and Iraq as we speak, with Yemen in particular being a recent development and they've now expanded to supplying Somali militants too.