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**ThisIsOK** · 02-08-2010, 11:21 AM

We have changed strategy. Petraeus is now in charge. Let's give him a chance to do what he did in Iraq.

As for killing the enemy, it works. Provided you kill them faster than they are recruited, trained, and armed. We've actually succeeded in doing that in every insurgency we've ever fought, even Vietnam. The problem wasn't that the Viet Cong was getting stronger, they were getting weaker. The NVA, however, was growing stronger because we couldn't attack them at will and they were receiving arms from China and the Soviets.

Facing a strictly guerilla army with no outside support, a body count strategy can work.

02-08-2010, 11:21 AM	#9
ThisIsOK Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 515 Senior Member	We have changed strategy. Petraeus is now in charge. Let's give him a chance to do what he did in Iraq. As for killing the enemy, it works. Provided you kill them faster than they are recruited, trained, and armed. We've actually succeeded in doing that in every insurgency we've ever fought, even Vietnam. The problem wasn't that the Viet Cong was getting stronger, they were getting weaker. The NVA, however, was growing stronger because we couldn't attack them at will and they were receiving arms from China and the Soviets. Facing a strictly guerilla army with no outside support, a body count strategy can work.
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