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    Somebody - Mike - came along

    with a better explanation.:cool: I defer and agree, Still, it is clear from Mike's comments that the possiblity, even the probability, existed for the rVN to have won the war had we and they followed...
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    My boss at SWORD

    COL Robert M. Herrick, was of the opinion that we simply sold President Thieu down the river after Nixon resigned. That is a correct statement, IMO, but hardly the whole story. For all the...
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    A brief thought

    Successful COIN really means making a better Revolution than the insurgents can make. Maybe that's why we keep reinventing VISTA with a new name every few years.:wry:

    Cheers

    JohnT
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    Didn't consider it a slight but

    an excuse to expand on the theme. :cool: I, personally, liked both Reveille and Rules. Who says civilians don't have tactical doctrine manuals?

    One of the things that I find puzzling is that Peace...
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    Alinsky, CAP, Peace Corps, etc.

    JMM, interesting you should mention these but not Peace Corps. The Great Society CAP grew, to some extent, out of programs overseas, especially in Latin America - the Alliance for Progress in...
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    CNAS on the NSP: Echos of El Sal

    Posted on the SWJ Blog is an entry of CNAS' new paper on the National Solidarity Program in Afghanistan (by John Nagl, Andrew Exum, et. al.). There is also an interesting embedded video of Exum...
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