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Afghanistan is like Vietnam in that they had a 3rd party foreign neighbor supporting them - Pakistan. ...whereas Japan and Germany had no support after the war
by koheripbal 5y ago
Afghanistan is like Vietnam in that they had a 3rd party foreign neighbor supporting them - Pakistan.
...whereas Japan and Germany had no support after the war to continue any sort of rebellion.
- rbanffy 5y agoAnd that serves to illustrate that you don’t win a political war with guns alone.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y agoI think the Mongol Empire illustrates that if you have overwhelming military advantage and are prepared to be absolutely ruthless in using that advantage, you can actually go pretty far with pretty minimal diplomacy (which is basically offering a chance to submit before you invade).
- rbanffy 5y agoWell… American military are immune from prosecution for crimes against humanity, so that’s one possible route. Consider, however, opposition will be much more violent and relentless and that both Soviet and British strongly recommended suicide before allowing oneself to be captured by Afghans, so I imagine that wouldn’t end well either. Again, diplomacy is cheaper, in both money and lives.