Has there ever been a successful invasion where the aggressor

>>2876555
Yes. Are you fucking retarded? It's not even hard to think of examples. The Franco-Prussian war. The Invasion of Serbia in WW1. The Six Day War. Etc.

>>2876567

How the fuck is the Six Day War an example of a successful invasion?

The Spaniards in Mexico?

>>2876572
Because Israel pre-emptively attacks both Syria and Egypt, winning enormous territorial concessions from the latter, minor ones in scope but important ones in value from the latter, at a roughly 1:5 numerical inferiority. Israel was on the offensive the entire time.

>>2876555
yes retard

Can think of a dozen examples just from roman history alone

>>2876580

That's still not an invasion. They were acting in self-defense.

>>2876592
What? And the motives of an offensive force somehow change the operational parameters? A justified pre-emptive invasion still has the chance of turning into a "slow meat grinder", same as a completely unjustified attack.

>>2876555
The Americans and British invaded Iraq with about 160,000 men, peaking at 250,000 towards the very end of the invasion, at a time where Iraq's army and reserves numbered over a million (on paper; actual effective strength may have numbered 400-600k).

>>2876592
they invaded sinai and golan heights so it was still an invasion

Alexander the Great
Ghengis Khan's conquest of China
The initial Rashidun Caliphate conquests