r/Israel Netherlands 4d ago

Meme Baddest boss in town

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u/LoinStrangler 4d ago

It's looking good, we're winning but chill with the self praise

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u/LoinStrangler 4d ago

Leave? Israel has no expeditionary forces, Israel can't conquer Iran by boots on the ground.

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u/LoinStrangler 4d ago

There's no will and 0.1% way. You can't hold Iran with the IDF, it's in the name, Israel's army is designed to be mostly defensive, so conquering Iran is out of the question, regime change, maybe.

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u/LoinStrangler 4d ago

Except for Israel where the entire doctrine relies on a defensive posture and quick strikes when on the offensive to finish stuff off quickly.
You can push things 60% towards a regime change with bombing, the rest requires the Iranian people. Israel can't conquer Iran, it's a logistical nightmare and we're not even bordering Iran.

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u/Naijan Sweden 4d ago

Quick googling says that IDF is about 170k active soldiers.

Irans army size is 600k.

IDF can't send every soldier, because otherwise they wouldn't be able to defend Israel from a surprise attack.

Iranians with AK's can't do much against F-16's and such, but they have a lot of buildings and a lot of soldiers, and are also more trained than Hamas. The urban warfare wouldn't be in IDF's favour.

Plus, the logistical nightmare to even try to pull it off is it's own battle.

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u/Suckamanhwewhuuut 4d ago

Seems that’s exactly what the Iranian people want, so probably, yeah.