After Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan, I'd shudder to see what incompetent would look like.
Probably a lot like the Setif and Guelma massacres in Algeria, My Trach in Vietnam, Leopold II cleansing of the Congo, Aushwitz, Lidice, Oradour sur Glane, the Incas........ I could go on.
My point was that pushing around smaller countries is not a uniquely UK or US action, as was suggested. The Europeans have quietly airbrushed out the bits of their history they don't like.