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Do you not think the same thing would apply in the US? If we were having serious domestic conflict there would be veterans on both sides, not to mention that other countries would certainly train officers to help their preferred side. The real point is that "technical superiority" (air power, artillery, mechanized equipment) is not on its own sufficient to win a war when the populace is opposed to the occupying military presence, and that military is not willing to totally butcher that populace.