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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Yup when you have a military with a set rules of engagement, a set target list and set objectives versus a force with no rules of engagement who's sole ambition is to bleed you and kill as many of you as possible in the worst way possible no matter what the cost, then you have a distinct advantage.
It was a theory originally created by General Giap in Vietnam who reached the conclusion that if you killed enough of the French they eventually wouldn't send anymore, then fought the same kind of war against the Americans. It was later perfected in Vietnam.
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Getting a little OT here,
Wasn't this essentially what the Japanese tried to do in WW2 in order to keep their island footholds? Make the price to the Americans so high that they wouldn't bother to go any further? They did this by making refusing to have a direct engagement with the Americans, instead having individual cells of soldiers, making the Americans take the Island back inch by inch.