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In response to
"I've been thinking about this for a long while and I'm curious what others think."
by
Will Hunting
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I see where you are going but that is just a handful of post WWII examples. Straight up conventional wars with clear cut winners post WWII
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include the Falkland Islands conflict, Desert Storm, Grenada, the Six Days War, the invasion of Idi Amin's Uganda by its neighbors, etc
guerilla wars have lingered on a long time, but if they never hit a critical mass of popular support, the guerillas always lose : Shining Path, FARC, Northern Ireland etc
Korea is unique in that it became a superpower conflict in the nuclear age so everyone backed down.
As far as Afghanistan goes, I maintain that if we used the resources that were being held off for an invasion of Iraq at the beginning then the Taliban would be a distant memory.
We can talk Iraq all day long, but if the provisional government had kept the Iraqi army employed instead of massively disbanding it, history would be different.
I made a comment two weeks ago that you saw that Russia is not a formidable conventional power anymore. I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from what is going on there.
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