Quote Originally Posted by bsnub
Why do you think roadside bombs became the flavor of the day? Because the rebels after a certain point could no longer directly engage the US military.
The roadside bombs, such primitive devices, ensured the "crusader coalition" troops could not step foot out of their heavily defended "lily pads". The idea, tried and failed in Vietnam, was to spread the holy message from a secure base. When the "preachers" could not step off the lily pad the "preachers" sent in the drones.

Multibillion weapons systems to kill local boys herding sheep, local girls on their wedding day, along with a "suspected" poppy farmer! Word got out and the paymasters realised, as in Vietnam, they had lost. They did win the bodycount war, allegedly. the drone operators were many Kms from any war zone.

Get used to, it the soldiers no longer line up with their red jackets on, awaiting a musket ball from the latest long rifle. The US and others use many weapons now, military, financial, media outlets ....... to achieve their financial goals for their masters.