1. More cohesion in NATO?
According to the balance-of-threat assumption the lack of unambiguous threat decreases ... ... more assertive than its more 'willing' counterpart back to 2003 in Iraq. No wonder since the threat for other states in the region is formidable. On the... ... the U.S. did in Vietnam. You just cannot combat these guys from the sky!
3. Whither Afghanistan?
Well, it's pretty simple. A president of Kabul is not a president...
... coalition forces of just
173,000
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The trial of Saddam Hussein, October 19, 2006
«However, Washington has fully achieved its
declared goal of toppling the Saddam regime.»
The technological gap was not as wide as in Afghanistan, where NATO faced poorly-trained and scantily-equipped Taliban troops formed less than 10 years before. The Iraqi army had had large-scale war experience, appropriate financing and trained personnel, as well as almost 6,000 armored vehicles and 300 aircraft. The defenders also displayed reasonably high morale, as Americans faced dogged resistance even during ...
