Those were standard military engagements, as in two armies facing off against each other with clear strategic goals. The US had the greatest military force in the world at the time, so obviously they would win in a straight up fight. Where the US military struggled was with insurgency, and they struggled with it again in Afghanistan. When the force you are fighting is able to disappear into the forest, a lot of your advantages get neutralized. You can’t drive your tanks through the forest, for example. The ewoks obviously don’t work as a 1 to 1 comparison, but fit pretty well with popular perception of the Vietnam war.
I genuinely don’t understand how they get that Twitter reply and still try to snitch. Why would they give you their boss’s phone number if they weren’t 100% sure that their boss would be cool with their posts?