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Frag Out! Magazine #28

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assets and artillery included. This facili- tates tactical success. However, it does not always have an impact on the final result. Thus, "battles are won in a lost war". Suffice it to say, the Americans with- drew their forces from Vietnam leav- ing the burden of fighting to the South Vietnamese forces that were quickly defeated by the communist forces. A similar scenario involving a different set of actors also brought the Russian intervention in Afghanistan to an end. Meanwhile, when the US forces with- drew from Iraq for the first time, back in 2011, an ISIS offensive began that was suppressed, ultimately, thanks to a US-led intervention. There is no reason to believe that similar scenarios would not occur in the future. The fact is that irregular warfare is not a golden bullet that always leads to victories. Unfortu- nately, our history also provides us with a number of examples – the January Uprising or other lost uprisings and un- derground resistance structures. Oth- ers also lost their war, including the Che Guevara's forces in Bolivia or the Greek communists, just after the WW2. The ANALYSIS

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