RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Why don't you address his point though? The U.S. Navy and Air Force obliterated Iran's conventional navy and air force -- congratulations! Job well done on the 20th century battlefield!Yet Iran, not the U.S., controls the Strait of Hormuz.Because all those conventional forces don't hold a candle to the 21st century warfare of missiles and drone planes and drone speedboats and the impregnable 21st century control over strategic waterways countries like the Houthis, Iran, and perhap ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)You're still fighting late 20th century wars, when it was all about "smart" this or that, which required expensive equipment. But today's smart weapons actually work quite well with very cheap Chinese chips and sensors.The key to 21st century warfare is thus deep stocks of missile and drone batteries, and real estate in which to scatter and hide them. That makes the countries themselves, and who controls the politics in those countries, key. Indonesia or Malaysia, if allied with C ...