Wasn't it phil hunt who wrote:

What would be sensible strategies/weapons for a middle-ranking
country to employ if it thought it is likely to be involved in a war
against the USA or other Western countries, say in the next 10
years?

I think that any middle-ranking country that went up against USA/The
West using military weapons would get seriously stomped on. The only way
to have a chance would be to win the propaganda war, turning popular
opinion in the USA against contesting the war. Infiltrate your
supporters into the US media many years before war is likely. Be aware
that the peril of one individual that the US media can identify with is
worth an awful lot more in propaganda terms than the death of anonymous
thousands. Design any military actions with their propaganda value as
the primary consideration, ignoring conventional military value almost
completely. Employ well-equipped media crews on the ground who
understand the US media, and have them rapidly release their (edited)
footage to the guys you've got planted in the US.

"The only way to understand the battle is to understand the language.
War is as much concept as execution."

Provoke your opponents into making the first media-visible aggressive
step, and make yourself appear to be implementing passive resistance, or
using a minimal defensive response. Meanwhile, if you can find any
targets that are not media-visible (i.e. the US government can't
publicly admit that the targets exist) then attack them aggressively.

--
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure