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No western military has had to fight a war against anything resembling a peer-to-peer force since Vietnam or Korea, and by now everyone with experience in that sort of fighting is dead or retired. It's all been air strikes and "counter insurgency" for the past 50 years. Walking around Iraq or Afghanistan until you get blown up by an IED doesn't do much to teach you about drone combat or missile interception/avoidance, and leisurely bombing weddings doesn't prepare you to actually avoid being shot down.

And on the contrary, the enemies of imperialism have had near constant experience adapting to American weapons and tactics