how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?

[Rev. Rye]

The Nixon Doctrine was a financial decision - the US could save money by not deploying troops, and make money through massive armament sales. Lately, though, it’s been honored more in the breach than in the observance.

I find it odd that you would invoke this, as it undercuts your previous statements.

Boru

How so? the Nixon Doctrine is the declaration of the death of American direct intervention with soldiers; which means that the U.S army with all its might is useless in winning wars directly.

We saw its defeat in the Vietnam war, then the Iraq war; this army is useless against guerilla tactics.

So America, to gain victories on the ground, needs another force to do the dirty work for it -such as the Afghan Mujaheddin-. It can't win with its soldiers because -let's face it-: they are mercs.

This is less a problem with the US and more a problem with the traditional Western-style army (the Children of Hannibal), to be honest. They tend to rely on assumptions that guerrilla forces refuse to allow. You kill Hitler, the Nazis fall and WW2 in Europe is over. You kill Ali la Pointe, someone else takes his place, and eventually France loses Algeria.

The big reason that America keeps losing wars is because we keep making the mistake of fighting the children of the FLN and not the children of Hannibal. The one war we did win was against Saddam Hussein’s army, A Son of Hannibal. Everyone else, we keep making the mistake of picking on guerrilla forces with huge popular support, and if it’s not huge when we start, every time we fight back, it just becomes bigger, because the people are more likely to see them as the lesser evil. When that happens, it only ends one of two ways: you commit genocide or you get defeated.