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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-08-03 under

"Both the Vietnamese communist and American rebel leaderships understood a critical reality that their stronger opponents failed to grasp: the guerrilla can win simply by not losing, whereas the counterinsurgent power can lose by not winning." -- Jeffrey Record, "Why the Strong Lose", Parameters, Winter 2005-06, pp. 16-31 (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] theferrett for linking to it)

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posted by [identity profile] vvalkyri.livejournal.com at 12:13pm on 2006-08-03
today's nytimes has an article about this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/world/middleeast/03israel.html?th&emc=th
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posted by [identity profile] osewalrus.livejournal.com at 05:15pm on 2006-08-03
Very true. The problem is that winning strategies in history usually involve stuff we would consider war crimes these days (consider how the Roman Empire and the Mongol Hordes kept order among conquered peoples -- not methods we would condone today).
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