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To: Road Walker who wrote (233754)	5/20/2005 5:03:41 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574326

Hell, I'm not saying you are wrong Than I do see that there is any issue. Challenge the statement or don't challenge it. If your not asserting that I'm wrong there shouldn't be a need to site examples. "When hearts and minds matter" is a bit vague. Wars of attrition have been won so often that its silly to ask for an example, but if you want one ok WWI is a good example that most people are likely to know about. What seems more relevant than "wars of attrition" is wars to put down insurgencies, and in fact insurgencies have been successfully put down many times, often never reaching the size needed to get much historical mention. I suppose that putting down any insurgency would amount to in a sense "winning a war of attrition when the hearts and minds of the local population are a big factor", except in cases where the insurgency is put down by killing nearly everyone in a region. If you want examples I suppose you could use the defeat of the Huk insurgency, and the defeat of the insurgency in Malaysia (1948-1960). Tim