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@mott-the-hoople said
sad to say I gave you are prime example with Viet Nam but you are not man enough to admit it.
Vietnam can hardly be called a conventional war.
And the Vietcong were only part of it. There was the NVA as well.

Maybe someone should define “conventional”, so that the definition is clear.

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@contenchess said
To learn from the American experience in Vietnam one must understand the nature of the war that was fought there. At no time was it a conventional war; from beginning to end it was a people's or revolutionary war in which both irregular and conventional forces played important roles.
And it showed another thing which ought to give Trump, sorry, Putin cause fot thought.

You may be able to win a war - the USA wasn't in Vietnam's jungles, Russia may on Ukraine's plains - but you will also have to win the peace.

Militias may not win the war for Ukraine, but they will stop Putin from winning the peace afterwards. Ukraine will prove a nightmare for Russian soldiers. Every single civilian will be against them.

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@shavixmir said
Vietnam can hardly be called a conventional war.
And the Vietcong were only part of it. There was the NVA as well.

Maybe someone should define “conventional”, so that the definition is clear.
the only thing that wasnt conventional was the “militias” you mention..

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@no1marauder said
In a conventional war? Pretty much useless.
Lots of factors involved.
'Lone wolves,' taking pot shots.....not much.
Organized resistance, a la, WWII French, Afghani,
and, how quick we forget, those, 'Viet Cong.
Leadership of civilian, militia forces is key,
along with close co-ordination with regular army forces.

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@shallow-blue said
And it showed another thing which ought to give Trump, sorry, Putin cause fot thought.

You may be able to win a war - the USA wasn't in Vietnam's jungles, Russia may on Ukraine's plains - but you will also have to win the peace.

Militias may not win the war for Ukraine, but they will stop Putin from winning the peace afterwards. Ukraine will prove a nightmare for Russian soldiers. Every single civilian will be against them.
As Stephen Kotkin has pointed out, Russia’s solutions involve flattening everything in a hostile territory and then going home and letting other people deal with building it back up again.

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Next time Biden asks if you're going to shoot deer with AKs, you can say...no, Russians.

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@huckleberryhound said
Next time Biden asks if you're going to shoot deer with AKs, you can say...no, Russians.
Reminds me of the one about a guy stopped for speeding;
''You see officer, I was just trying to
get all that nasty Iranian gas out tank.''