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Purdy much what I just said.
If you can't read sure.
Tankers don't work that way. It wouldn't be crazy, it would be friggin stupid, esepcially since tankers don't have any defensive armaments.
Tankers can drop their fuel in an emergency. And it would be crazy to actually use a tanker like that. That said, it does have the capacity to be ground support and defensive weapons are irrelevant here.
So, no, not any aircraft can be a ground support aircraft, of the same caliber of an A-10.
Did I say any aircraft can be of the same caliber of close ground support as A-10? No. I did not. Read more carefully. I said that basically any aircraft can be ground support. There's a difference between close ground support and merely ground support. I suggest you learn it.
Don't attempt to lecture me on A-10s. I know how they work. You need in the future to differentiate close ground support with mere ground support. You appear to understand it now, do so in the future.
8 million troops died during the Iran-Iraq war. The Iraqi army wasn't a joke. Anyone that thinks so has zero understanding of combat opwer and it's employment on the battlefield.
Actually yes, Iraq's army was a joke. Iran had a seriously subpar military after sanctions and military purges. Reliance upon unarmed human waves drastically increased casualties in the war. Sending unarmed boys against machine gun nests and mine fields will increases total dead. It does not mean Iraq's military was good. By your measure, sending civil war soldiers against WWI machine guns means that the army with machine guns is good in today's battlefield. No, it's not. Iraq's army was a joke as evident by its crushing defeat in Desert Storm. 3 years later Iraq was pulverized. Anyone who thinks Iraq's military wasn't a joke has zero understanding of combat power and it's employment on the battlefield.
10 years ago, maybe. That's a big maybe, since the Israelis have never deployed forces outside the ME.
Which is irrelevant to the discussion. Israel has dealt with asymmetrical warfare on a large scale for far longer then the US has.
All the technology on earth isn't going to take away from the fact that you can win a war from the air. The only way to win it, is to put infantry soldiers on the ground.
Wrong again. You can "win" a war from a desk in the sense of reducing your enemy's capacity to fight to rubble. What you cannot do is take and hold territory. Well, at the moment that is. A robot army controlled remotely could in theory achieve an occupation.