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From: beckerd@grover.cs.unc.edu (David Becker)
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Subject: Re: Learning in War
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Date: 3 Oct 89 13:07:21 GMT
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From: beckerd@grover.cs.unc.edu (David Becker)
In article Chris Perleberg writes:
"
"The losers payed more attention.  Perhaps that is typical.  And, for the
"U.S., frightening.
"

The Axis countries are not a threat military-wise(maybe economically).
The Allies did learn from WWI not to leave a loser around.  Russia would be
as succeptable as America to not learning from WWII defeats.

Also, as another posting pointed out, the US military has learned from
Viet Nam how the lessons needed to prevent another such disaster.  The
American military remembers Viet Nam better than WWII I suspect.

David Becker  beckerd@cs.unc.edu