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| − | '''Rollback''' is the strategy to win a war by destroying the enemy country or replacing it with a favorable | + | '''Rollback''' is the strategy to win a war by destroying the enemy country or replacing it with a favorable regime. |
The U.S. practiced rollback against the Confederacy (1865) and Germany and Japan in [[World War II]]. | The U.S. practiced rollback against the Confederacy (1865) and Germany and Japan in [[World War II]]. | ||
Revision as of 21:03, June 25, 2009
Rollback is the strategy to win a war by destroying the enemy country or replacing it with a favorable regime.
The U.S. practiced rollback against the Confederacy (1865) and Germany and Japan in World War II.
It tried and failed rollback against North Korea in 1950.
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.