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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]].
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]].
==See also==
==See also==
* [[List of military strategies and concepts]]
* [[List of military strategies and concepts]]
*[[Operation Unthinkable]]
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