The Political Thread - Browncoat edition... down with the Alliance!
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Funny things about old lyrics... give them a few decades and they might become relevant!
"Anarchy for the U.K.
It's coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time, stop a traffic line
Your future dream has sure been seen through"
am thinking invade v. intervene is largely a semantic differentiation and it ignores actual reasons for perceived success v. failure. sadly, success in these kinda post-invasion operations comes down to a willingness to allocate sufficient resources to adequate maintain peace in newly occupied territories.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/periodicals/rand-review/issues/summer2003/burden.html
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1753/MR1753.ch9.pdf
us peacekeepin
