Overview for counterinsurgency

Keep Ground Forces a Defense Priority

One of the things that we've learned in the past decade is that failed and failing states are probably the single greatest threat to America. They too often become breeding grounds for terrorists and radical extremists. The corollary of this, of course, is that there is no substitute for …

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Written by John Guardiano on Thursday October 13, 2011

Exclusive Quotes from `Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam'

Perhaps the most outstandingly original history of the Vietnam War is Lewis Sorley's A Better War . A Better War describes the US fight in Southeast Asia between 1969 and 1972. The US forces switched then from a big-unit strategy adapted from the Korean experience toward counterinsurgency …

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Written by David Frum on Monday October 10, 2011