I'm back at @ForeignPolicy writing about the task of training auxiliaries, comparing American failures with Roman successes.https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/03/us-military-auxiliary-armies-afghanistan-rome/ …
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But in either case, we need to give up the notion of getting maximal solutions out of minimal investment and dislocation. These are trade-off questions and worse yet, ones where 'split the difference' approaches generally fail.
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So if full on imperialism, complete with semi-permanent colonial governance is politically unacceptable (and in my view it should be) then you have to accept that only a very limited range of objectives - mostly just picking which pre-existing local elites rule - are possible.
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Or just... stop intervening?
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I think it is hard to imagine a universe where, after 9/11, the United States does not take some action against the Taliban, which was very openly playing host and state-sponsor to the Taliban.
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The US tends to imagine that the pre-existing local elites would have support from the people if only the pesky dictators who provide free health care, roads, schools, and medical centers were opposed by American messing about, but not planning to permanently occupy the place.
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That is not how I would describe Taliban rule pre-9/11
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Distantly related: last week read _Shattered Sword_ on your recommendation. Great stuff, very accessible to my casual-reader self, reframed how I thought about the Pacific campaign. Thank you. Your blog work is also informing how I think about _The Road to Eleusis._
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Jon Parshall is, I understand, working on another book now, one that will cover '42 over all theaters. Exciting stuff, no idea on when it will be done though.
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The only option is treating a nation like a fellow sovereign nation that could, barring invasion, handle its own problems and internal power struggles, and develop less rigid ways of running its country to stop US meddling because we had stopped meddling.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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