Originally Posted by
Vitek
Using your argument, we can come to the conclusion that the US military is inferior to just about anyone because they fled from Afghanistan after 20 years of having superior technology and boots on the ground (something Russia doesn't have in Syria other than special forces here and there) fighting against the same bearded guys with AK's, IED's and pick-up trucks.
I would be careful to derive the military capability in an all-out war from the results in an attempted stabilisation mission in a remote country. Thes Soviet Army fled Afghanistan back in the day but I would never ever have concluded from that, that they might be incapabale of leading an all-out war. Just that they were tired of losing soldiers to ambushes in a strategically largely irrelevant sh*t hole Country.