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Originally Posted by Growler
Stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the country would have been good COIN training in the 70's and 80's, if we'd had the political will to risk a some unpopularity. Instead, we are learning counterinsurgency the hard way - by bleeding a lot - in full-on, far more warlike wars.
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Wasn't there already a major COIN operation going on in the early 1970s somewhere?