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To: tejek who wrote (177457)	11/5/2003 12:49:54 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574001

The only way I have seen home grown insurgencies stopped completely is through near total eradication. Yes. Esp. if like this one they are not broad based insurgencies but even when they are. Examples - Malaysia, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, US in the Philippines. Even with the US in Vietnam the anti-insurgency campaign was far more successful then most people realize and that was a borad based insurgency, with a lot of foregin support for the insurgents, and declining American support for the war. - " Guerrillas and the Vietnam War Within the United States, the Vietnam War is commonly thought of as a guerrilla war. However this is a misleading simplification of a much more complex situation which followed the pattern outlined by Maoist theory. The Viet Cong or "VC" used guerrilla tactics in the early phases of the war. However, by 1965 when American involvement escalated, the Viet Cong were in the process of being supplanted by regular units of the North Vietnamese Army. The NVA regiments organized along traditional military lines, were supplied via the Ho Chi Minh trail rather than living off the land, and had access to weapons such as tanks and artillery which are not normally used by guerrilla forces. Over time, more of the fighting was conducted by the North Vietnamese Army and the character of the war become increasingly conventional. The final offensive into South Vietnam in 1975 was a completely conventional military operation with no elements of guerrilla warfare. By the end of the Vietnam War, most of the Viet Cong had been killed in action or were no longer combat-effective. One of the first acts of the new North Vietnamese-dominated unified Vietnamese government was to hunt out former Viet Cong and imprison them to consolidate the regime's hold on South Vietnam. " en.wikipedia.org