Oh, we were talking about Algeria in early '02, even. There's a movie about the civil war that apparently became popular among DoD folks in '03 or so (The Battle of Algiers? I misremember...)
There's an issue of The Atlantic that I think is still with you that talks about the various crummy attempts at figuring out how to train for guerrila war the US has gone through; the basic summary is that 18 months were lost (along with thousands of lives and tons of credibility), with no guarantee that it's remotely recoverable.
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Date: Thursday, 12 January 2006 05:45 pm (UTC)There's an issue of The Atlantic that I think is still with you that talks about the various crummy attempts at figuring out how to train for guerrila war the US has gone through; the basic summary is that 18 months were lost (along with thousands of lives and tons of credibility), with no guarantee that it's remotely recoverable.