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The US military (and other military powers for that matter, it's not just a US thing) has a nasty habit of forgetting lessons learnt in one war just in time to fight the next. There were quite a few hard lessons learnt in Korea that didn't get carried over to Vietnam, I don't know why, perhaps each generation of general thinks that the laws of the previous are outdated, when in fact while the weaponry may have changed, the warfare is still the same.
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Some generals were, in fact, very atuned to the "leassons learned"; Gen. McArthur was widely quoted as saying "Never get involved in a land war in Asia" after his experiences in the Pacific and Korea. His words were later verified by the conflict in Vietnam...
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