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Depends on how you define success. Officially Afghanistan and Iraq were successes, but the messy "post-war" situation in Iraq was a major factor to the strength
by pluma 10y ago
Depends on how you define success. Officially Afghanistan and Iraq were successes, but the messy "post-war" situation in Iraq was a major factor to the strength of ISIS.
Modern warfare really seems to be less about the actual war and more about post-war occupation.
- argonaut 10y agoI meant actual success, obviously. North Korea is culturally homogenous, and culturally similar to South Korea. There is no comparison to Afghanistan and Iraq. It also goes without saying that if America was willing to fully occupy Iraq for a few more decades, I'm completely confident Iraq would be stable - the cost is ridiculously prohibitive, however.