At 10:19 PM 5/5/2003 -0400 Erik Reuter wrote:
>Of course, that can go both ways. I have read convincing arguments that
>the strongest economy is what wins the war in the long term (the cold
>war being the most recent example, but they traced it back too, I wish I
>could remember where I read it now)
Except that this theory is directly contradicted by one of the overriding
principles of American military planning for the last 30 years - avoiding
the next Vietnam.
And I don't know that we can argue that the Vietnam War didn't reach the
"long term."
JDG
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