Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
Thank you for that and hopefully others will also comment.

When you say 'change the rules' what exactly would that entail?
I guess the simplest way to say it is that only certain tactics are possible within the set of policies we fight under, and with the tools we're using. I think it's possible that if some policies were changed, or if a few different tools were used, a different outcome might come out of it...

But also maybe not. Pretty sure John Paul Vann thought something similar in Vietnam.