Next you're going to tell me that operating out of your own mountainous terrain has an advantage.

Would be news to the US military it seems. Mountains, jungles, who would have thought?

This isn’t unexpected for anyone in the actual military: they’ve planned for this for decades. A couple of friends served in the previous war and they mentioned that this is what their training exercises were like: same enemy, same difficulty.

Possibly true, but at least they don't have the ability to control some critical waterway or something to hold everyone at ransom.

The Serbs successfully used a similar tactic to down an F-117A, so yeah.