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Old 12-25-2006, 12:29 PM   #31
Claeren
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Originally Posted by Looger View Post
kill ratios are very useless when fighting a guerilla war, where you can win every battle and still lose. the only successful counter-insurgencies i can think of are the brits in malaysia - probably more but that's the one that springs to mind. problem is, they actually tried to win that one.
I too believe that is the only significant 'successful engagement' as well. And it was still many many years long and the British still wanted out as soon as it was over.

And that was back before weapon proliferation like we see today.



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