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The US has been buck broken by 30 years of COIN operations. They've forgotten how to fight conventional wars, and the entire officer core has completely deluded themselves into believing any conflict with any nation will play out exact like the gulf war in 1991. Despite the fact that wars proceeding in that fashion is the exception, not the norm. The understanding of conventional warfare going into that war was that America could sustain up to 50k casualties. This was expected when fighting the 4th largest army in the world who had 8 years of experience fighting the Iran-Iraq war. Despite all of this, Wiemerica would probably still clap Venezuela because the effectiveness of a military is entirely dependant on the competence of the individual soldiers, which is largely influenced by the general intelligence of the people servomg. The average IQ in Venezuela is below the floor for US military personel, excluding ASVAB waivers. We could expect about the same competency as the Iraqi's, minus any ideological fanaticism from muslims, in other words it should be a walk in the park.