That’s not the US led UN backed war following Iraq‘s invasion of Kuwait. Iran and Iraq had a long and brutal war with tanks, planes, helicopters, mines, trenches, and more in the 1980s.
Near peers? Pretty sure there’s a whole ocean separating Argentina and Britain, even if the islands where the conflict occurred were “just next door” to mainland Argentina.
It’s a measure of military capability between nations. A Near Peer would be a nation that shares similar capabilities for force projection or in otherwords the powerscale is 1:1.
Hey, the Falklands is the one I’m obsessed with and it’s actually really interesting. Only “modern” war between near peers before ukraine.
Iran Iraq war also known as first gulf war?
Wut
The Iraqi army got absolutely obliterated
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War
That’s not the US led UN backed war following Iraq‘s invasion of Kuwait. Iran and Iraq had a long and brutal war with tanks, planes, helicopters, mines, trenches, and more in the 1980s.
I’m sure you’ve come across it but David Hart Dyke’s book on the loss of HMS Coventry is one of the more vivid depictions of grief I’ve read.
Near peers? Pretty sure there’s a whole ocean separating Argentina and Britain, even if the islands where the conflict occurred were “just next door” to mainland Argentina.
That’s not what the near in near peer means…
It’s a measure of military capability between nations. A Near Peer would be a nation that shares similar capabilities for force projection or in otherwords the powerscale is 1:1.
I think they meant “near” as in “evenly matched”.