Fighting the Arabs was never the real thing, any organized force generally cut and run pretty quick and the taliban, and terrorists was gorilla regardless of where it was. You were fighting a motivated but far outmatched advisory. Which was never capable of inflicting much damage on you as we always had the upper hand due to technology.

Fighting a real war against a fairly evenly matched advisory is something we have not seen since Japan and Germany. Problem is we are not the same America and not the same people, the Russian people live much tougher lives than us and care much more about family. For gods sake its the law to take care of your parents when they get elderly, if you don't its straight to prison. Thats a completely different mindset which we are currently lacking.