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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
20 Nov 2004 03:35:13 AM |
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OT: Vietnam |
Why Iraq Will End as Vietnam Did
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/crevald1.html
by Martin Van Creveld
As Shakespeare once wrote, they have their exits and their entries.
Between about 1975 and 1990, following the US defeat in Vietnam,
military history was extremely popular among the US Armed Forces.
After 1991, largely as a result of what many people considered the
"stellar" performance of those Forces against Saddam Hussein, it went
out of fashion; after all, if we were able to do that well there was
not much point in studying the mistakes our predecessors made. Now
that comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq have suddenly become very
fashionable indeed, history is rushing right back at us. Here, I wish
to address the differences and the similarities between the two wars
by describing Vietnam as it was experienced by one man, Moshe Dayan.
Martin Van Creveld
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Martin%20Van%20Creveld%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Martin+Van+Creveld%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Martin+Van+Creveld%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
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Iraq
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0410181208.3f6782b9%40posting.google.com
Vietnam Vietnamese
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+Vietnam+OR+Vietnamese&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+Vietnam+OR+Vietnamese&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+Vietnam+OR+Vietnamese&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_oq=Vietnam%20Vietnamese&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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