The talking heads.
. If they're former military . . . they've never been in a war like this. 2. Arm chair neo-cons . . . they've never been in a war. They've only covered wars against countries or factions who at best could only muster small to medium arms that were in most cases old and dated. The U.S. military hasn't been in combat against a standing army of thousands upon thousands of soldiers, armor, artillery and air power since Korea . . . a stalemate. So much of a stalemate that Le May et. al. started talking about using . . . nuclear weapons.
So at the end of the day, these "experts" are mainly just pulling stuff straight out of their ass.