>>509762967>or miscalculated how effectively it could just turtle and wait an enemy out.hows that?
The only way to get regime change is to invade them. Bombings alone never accomplish shit like that.
And an invasion of Iran would be fucking hell, they're right in thinking they could hunker down. In this era of drones, it would be a bloodbath trying to hold territory there in asymmetric / guerilla warfare.
I'm not sure I'd call that a paper tiger. Nobody said they threatened the world with invasion / expansion so they were never a tiger in that regard anyway.
They only said they threaten with random nuclear war, which is bullshit