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Originally Posted by Adm.Lee
I think you left out: a host country whose government seems too weak/corrupt/inept to win over the population.
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That's a good addition. We could discuss at length the dynamics of the RVN governments and the Kabul government vis-a-vis the NLF and the Taliban, respectively. However, in neither case could our allies draw on sufficient goodwill or sheer brutality to line up the citizenry behind them.
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