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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (323677)1/30/2007 11:25:29 AM
From: TimF   of 1576344
 
Precisely, in Vietnam. We learned that "kill ratios" were meaningless.

Not entirely meaningless, but secondary to determination to win. As Napoleon put it "Morale is to the physical as ten is to one."

In Iraq you don't have the comparatively large American losses that we saw in Vietnam, instead you have more random violence, or violence targeted at different ethnic groups. Vietnam had aspects of guerrilla warfare and conventional warfare. Iraq (at least after the initial invasion) is more on the borderline between terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare. Conventional battles are pretty non-existent unlike in Vietnam, and even guerrilla campaigns are smaller in scale. There are less ambushes, or quick attacks against American positions, instead you get more IED/mine/bomb attacks against Americans and our allies, and also more terrorist bombings against civilians.
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