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...were sure that we could destroy the North Korean regime in three to four weeks,” said Carter...
...high-tech war like the one in Iraq, a limited number of highly specialized forces equipped with sophisticated weapons can destroy the enemy. But once the main battles are over, many more boots on the ground are needed to protect what has been gained. Military personnel are not machines, and they must be rotated and refreshed, especially in a hostile or stressful situation. Perhaps American military planners should be examining as good case studies the historical withdrawals and defeats of thinly stretched conquering armies. Adrian Villanueva Singapore...
...astounding feat of wartime engineering and defiance, the Ho Chi Minh Trail was actually a 16,000-kilometer network of roads, hacked by hand out of the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It helped the communist North win the Vietnam War. U.S. forces never managed to destroy it, despite carpet bombing and the use of Agent Orange. Since the war ended, however, the trail has been largely reclaimed by jungle and myth; only a few, isolated fragments are accessible. Christopher Hunt's 1996 book Sparring with Charlie documented his trying, and mostly failing, to trace it. Indeed...
...being," he says. A seventh-grade Saudi text in use in the U.S. and obtained by Rita Katz, executive director of an institute called the Search for International Terrorist Entities, explains a Koranic verse thusly: "We have to be careful of the infidels, and we can ask Allah to destroy them in our prayers...
...recording industry is expected to unveil an "amnesty program": illegal file sharers can fess up before they're hit with a lawsuit. But first they must destroy all their downloads. DON'T EXPECT CHEERS...