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Old 12-19-10, 11:53 AM   #1
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Yea its all fun and games until a US Patrol finds the body of a PLA adviser with some Taliban after a drone strike. Then we start getting in to Casus Belli stuff...
I doubt we'll ever see that. These type of things tend not to unfold like they do in Tom Clancy novels.
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Old 12-19-10, 11:56 AM   #2
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I doubt we'll ever see that. These type of things tend not to unfold like they do in Tom Clancy novels.
Like the Gulf of Tonkin?
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Like the Gulf of Tonkin?
No, much more like Vietnam itself. Nothing sexy about it.
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C'mon guys, it all gets down to Asia being a strategic No-No for the west. At least within the present mind-set of western strategists and operational planners. We have ground troops there for almost 10 years now and we still look like awkward teenagers going to their first party!



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I doubt we'll ever see that. These type of things tend not to unfold like they do in Tom Clancy novels.
Behind every war that doesn't happen are diplomats doing a very good job, IME.
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