Re: Afghanistani Warfare.

[Arclight <arclight@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:41 13.09.2001 -0400, Jacob E Boucher wrote:

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>Your arguments are the same naysaying that bombarded the military before
>the Gulf War, fearing that we'd get into "another Vietnam".  Well, the
>ground war lasted about 1/1000th the time as Vietnam did, and was a lot
>more successful.  I will not claim that US lives won't be lost, and it
>wouldn't be a hard fight, but I also wouldn't rely on any negative
>hypothesis formed by how A) America fought in Vietnam or B) how the
>Soviets fought in Afghanistan.  That was then, and this is now.

Better compare Afghanistan and it's mountainous regions to kosovo. And take 
a look how "successful" and "effective" the campaign there was. Hint: "not 
that effective"

Arclight