Toronado3800
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"Defeating an invasion is not the definition of a stalemate. It's the definition of a victory.
Just for a comparison, the Iraqi military had 1,500,000 soldiers, 5000 tanks, 10,000 armored fighting vehicles, 10,000+ artillery pieces, 450 aircraft, and 180 helicopters by the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
Iraq had only 450,000 military personnel by 2003, in which only 90,000 of them were modernized. Half of them were disloyal. Iraq had no military infrastructure, air defenses, and virtually no heavy armor or artillery."
1. We are talking Gulf War 1, not 2.
2. Fine, Iran "defeated" the Iraqi invasion then was unable to take over Iraq because the 1987 Iranian military was not meaningfully superior to the Iraqi military which we walked over in 1990.
Just for a comparison, the Iraqi military had 1,500,000 soldiers, 5000 tanks, 10,000 armored fighting vehicles, 10,000+ artillery pieces, 450 aircraft, and 180 helicopters by the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
Iraq had only 450,000 military personnel by 2003, in which only 90,000 of them were modernized. Half of them were disloyal. Iraq had no military infrastructure, air defenses, and virtually no heavy armor or artillery."
1. We are talking Gulf War 1, not 2.
2. Fine, Iran "defeated" the Iraqi invasion then was unable to take over Iraq because the 1987 Iranian military was not meaningfully superior to the Iraqi military which we walked over in 1990.