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lupatus on June 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Battleships: a ridiculous but awesome idea

I think the USA are doing smashingly well against their current crop asymmetrical opponents. Wikipedia has the GWOT American casualties count (military and civilian) at 8800 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror#Casualties). Far more American citizens than that died the last time we faced a serious asymmetrical opponent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars).

MartinCron on June 2, 2011 | [–]

I would consider Vietnam largely asymmetrical. Wouldn't you?

lupatus on June 3, 2011 | [–]

The North Vietnamese had a uniformed, regimented army. Al-Qaeda and the American Indians did/do not.

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