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In Iraq, military forgot lessons of Vietnam - -

By Thomas E. Ricks

FIGHTING THE INSURGENCY Getting the Strategy Right

In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam

Early Missteps by U.S. Left Troops Unprepared for Guerrilla Warfare

Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 23, 2006

The real war in Iraq -- the one to determine the future of the country -- began on Aug. 7, 2003, when a car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy, killing 11 and wounding more than 50.

That bombing came almost exactly four months after the U.S. military thought it had prevailed in Iraq, and it launched the insurgency, the bloody and protracted struggle with guerrilla fighters that has tied the United States down to this day.



    
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