Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
The combat lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan will not be good ideas for major conventional war, though.
Not on the macro level but as pointed out by others, the little things are the killers, the basics -- and those things, Afghanistan and Iraq do aid.
Infantry can reveal itself, show presence day after day and survive with some armor in these LI conflicts.
Or without Armor if they're smart...
Infantry that shows itself to competent enemies is dead within seconds.
Depends. Can be generally true in most of rural western Europe that is developed and mostly unwooded; quite true also in the desert, on the plains or steppes -- but not at all true in jungles, mountains, heavily wooded terrain like boreal forest or taiga and absolutely not in an urban environment. Again, if they're smart, not totally true anywhere but in the latter types of terrain, they only have to be half smart...