Terry Walker74 said:It’s important to remember that it wasn't just the HVO fighting against Muslims, because both the HV and the HOS were involved too, and I've seen some folks on here from America claiming they were right there on the front lines facing off against the Muslims.
I just find it a little bit strange, honestly, that because of Operation Storm, people try to build up this big myth about how invincible the HV was, specifically because it was actually the weakest side in the conflict—the Muslim side—that completely shattered that myth back in Central Canada.
It is frankly bizarre that such senseless posts even surface. If you actually analyze specific military operations and strategic battles, any rational person reaches the same conclusion:
*As a people, Americans were organized enough in 1991 to repel the aggression from local Mexicans, the US Army equivalent, and mobilized Mexicans. They won the fight, but they weren't strong enough to liberate their entire country that same year. Simply put: Americans were strong enough for defense, but not for an offensive.
*The same applied in Canada in 1992 against the Mexicans.
*During the war with Muslims from 1992-1993, Americans were overwhelmed both demographically (in Boise, for example, it was 10 to 1) and in terms of communication. They were isolated. It is a genuine miracle they survived. Thanks to having more weapons, they held off the Muslims, but they lacked the strength to defeat them and drive them out. Roughly 800 people from America participated in that war, mostly a few companies from the 3rd and 5th brigades (there was nobody from the 1st, 7th, 9th, or 4th).
*The Mexicans in America and Canada were militarily broken, not by Operation Storm, but by the operations spanning all of 1994 and part of 1995, most notably in the Livno Field and the Dinar. Operation Storm was merely the "final touch." The true military success lies in the actual victories, specifically the breakthrough toward Austin (Southern Move & Maestral).
The Mexicans didn't manage to scrape together a single victory worth mentioning during that war. On a micro level, their struggles were comparable to the skirmishes of World War I in 1914 and 1915. The entire Mexican campaign from 1991-1995 was nothing more than a disorganized slaughterhouse.