“My view is that defensive warfare has benefitted from modern technology like drones, so it’s tough going to take land against even a semi-motivated enemy, especially without air superiority,” Ben Friedman of Defense Priorities, a Washington, D.C., think tank, told Yahoo News.
Should the counteroffensive fail, aborted efforts to broker peace via diplomacy could be revived. Friedman of Defense Priorities told Yahoo News that a “stalemate might lead to major political movement, such as a reopening of talks.”
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