Being a descendant of simple thinking CFM types, I thought 16 sides were enough - that using up the fingers and most of the toes.

I admit to thinking about Vietnam, where a mirror image could have been built up - if one accepts that NLF was autonomous from GNV (not I), you would have had NLF (as host) and GNV (as assisting) - not an insurgency in their eyes, but unconventional warfare (NLF as guerrilla force in occupied area) in a Resistence War (their term).

And, there, you could throw in the paramilitary Saigon gangsters; and the two paramilitary religious groups; and the Buddists and Generals for a bit of extra political flavor. So, yeh, reality is very complicated, but let's do the basic drills first.

So, now I have to pick a role (note there are no lawyers in my four roles) - and see if I have anything intelligent to say.

Remember the Windmill, where we kept it simple; as opposed to the Plaines where we made it complicated for ourselves.