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June 29, 2007
Rethinking Insurgency
The Iraq war is drawing more parallels with the Vietnam war.
We might say at this point in time that the military started into the Iraq War hoping to avoid fighting a counterinsurgency war at all. Now that we're well into the fifth year of that war, and even further into the (now-)NATO intervention in Afghanistan, the generals have relearned the lessons of the Vietnam War counterinsurgency.
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Posted on June 29, 2007 07:33 PM by vietna815.
Filed in War Stories under vietnam war.
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