With MANPADS provided by Uncle Satan. More are seeing this as Washington's attempt at Afghanistan 2.0 for the Russians. If you look at the second Grozny war though, you'll find they've wised up with regard to "counterinsurgency". They know levelling cities with artillery and genocide are the only real ways to pacify a rebellion.

Anyways, US generals are all the sudden finding out about blowback -- but only when it happens to Russia.