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 ==See also==
 * [[List of military strategies and concepts]]
 [[Category:Cold War]]

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 [[Category:Cold War]]
-[[Category:Diplomacy]]
+[[Category:International Relations]]
 [[Category:Reagan Era]]
 [[Category:Rollback]]
 [[Category:Military Strategies and Concepts]]

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-'''Rollback''' is the strategy to win a war by destroying the enemy country or replacing it with a favorable regime.
+'''Rollback''' is the strategy to win a war by destroying the enemy country or replacing it with a favorable regime.  It has sometimes been effective and other times led to disastrous results.
-The U.S. practiced rollback against the [[Confederate States of America]] (1865) and [[Third Reich|Germany]] and [[Japan]] in [[World War II]].
+The U.S. practiced rollback against the [[Confederate States of America]] (1865) and [[Third Reich|Germany]] and [[Japan]] in [[World War II]].  The [[Normandy Invasion]] is an example of a successful rollback of occupied territories in [[France]] and the [[Low Countries]].
 Rollback became an important policy advocated by [[John Foster Dulles]] and [[Allen Dulles]] in the immediate post-[[World War II]] era - to rollback the "captive nations" absorbed into the [[Warsaw Pact|Soviet bloc]] as a result of [[Red Army]] gains in the destruction of the [[Third Reich]].  Those nations were [[East Germany]], [[Poland]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Yugoslavia]], and  the [[Baltic States]].

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 The U.S. tried and failed rollback against [[North Korea]] in 1950 during the [[Korean War]], and against [[Cuba]] in the [[Bay of Pigs]] in 1961.
-Rollback was the basis of fighting the [[People's Republic of China]] and [[Soviet]] proxies in the [[Vietnam war]].
+Rollback was said to be the basis of fighting the [[People's Republic of China]] and [[Soviet]] proxies in the [[Vietnam war]].
 It succeeded with Noriega in [[Panama]] (1989), Grenada (1983), the [[Taliban]] in [[Afghanistan]] (2001), [[Saddam Hussein]] in [[Iraq]] (2003)--and most importantly, against the [[Soviet Union]] in the 1980s.

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	The U.S. tried and failed rollback against [[North Korea]] in 1950 during the [[Korean War]], and against [[Cuba]] in the [[Bay of Pigs]] in 1961.		The U.S. tried and failed rollback against [[North Korea]] in 1950 during the [[Korean War]], and against [[Cuba]] in the [[Bay of Pigs]] in 1961.
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		+	Rollback was the basis of fighting the [[People's Republic of China]] and [[Soviet]] proxies in the [[Vietnam war]].

	It succeeded with Noriega in [[Panama]] (1989), Grenada (1983), the [[Taliban]] in [[Afghanistan]] (2001), [[Saddam Hussein]] in [[Iraq]] (2003)--and most importantly, against the [[Soviet Union]] in the 1980s.		It succeeded with Noriega in [[Panama]] (1989), Grenada (1983), the [[Taliban]] in [[Afghanistan]] (2001), [[Saddam Hussein]] in [[Iraq]] (2003)--and most importantly, against the [[Soviet Union]] in the 1980s.