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Vietnam War Lessons: Never Too Late to Learn - UNC Press Blog
Developments over the last month or so have put the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan under a dark cloud. The McChrystal affair and the WikiLeaks revelations are symptomatic of deeper troubles: the rapid bankruptcy of counterinsurgency, a surge in U.S. casualties, the persistently problematic role of Pakistan, the continued immobility of the Karzai regime, the sluggish progress in training Afghan forces, and declining domestic support. Vietnam lessons would seem never more pertinent. That earlier war most obviously underlines the long odds against nation building. The U.S. commander, General William Westmoreland, understood from the start that he...
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