jhungary
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1. Actually, I am not a military personal to draw lines between categories.
2. I put the thread keeping in mind the current yemen situation (taking back capital from rebels)
3. But rebels can get hands off on rpg or tows missile (even javilon) as US forces left in haste from yemen, which are very effective in urban set up but not in open conflict.
bascially by 4th gen I menat, not minor ops but a fight with untrained/unorganized militias in urban environment which have a political agenda.
1.) Fair enough`
`2.) No, the situation in Yemen cannot be said as a 4th Generation Warfare, the rebel in Yemen is not a standing army, they are solely an armed insurgency with local support.
3.) Yes indeed, but would the rebel capture enough to sustain their operation to the invading force? You need to know, until you can be advanced to a point where you can keep using your captured equipment to capture more equipment. You cannot sustain such attacks/item in an operational level, the simple equation is, sooner or later, the captured equipment is going to run out.
Also, another factor is, the more complex an equipment gets, it's harder for any untrained person to operate. You can capture an M1 Abrams Tank that does not mean you have people know how to operate them. Training is what set apart organised force and insurgency