Currently I'm writing a thesis about negative effects of using the military in counterterrorism missions. I'm especially interested in the issue that if militaries engaged unconventional missions for a long period of time do they lose their conventional war fighting skills. I'm following the arguments of Col. Gentile and find them very useful. My question is that do you think any other conflict in history may become an example like of Israel against Hezbollah in 2006 where a military lost a conventional type of conflict because of focus on counterinsurgency for a long period of time?

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