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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 Confederacy (1865) and 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]].

It tried and failed rollback against North Korea in 1950.

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]].

It succeeded with Noriega in Panama (1989), the Taliban in Afghanistan (2001), Saddam Hussein in Iraq (2003)--and most important, 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.

 

 

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