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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
> Combat between First World nations is a bad idea anyways. But foot
> soldiers can get killed in Third World ones.
>
> Solving a problem like Russia is more difficult. Out-waiting and out-
> lasting worked with Communism, and while that was quite a surprise, for 
> Russia's current regime to outlive Putin by much seems unlikely.

Milton Miles book ("Another Kind of War") first half was about going
into china to setup coastal watchers but then spent much of the rest
training 50,000 guerrillas fighting the Japanese. He then spends the
last half of the book about how OSS and Army gave china to the
communists. They came in and wanted to take over the whole
operation. The US Navy and Nationalists rebuffed them, so to get
something they could take credit for, they support the communists.

Without giving China to the communists, there wouldn't be korean war,
domino theory, vietnam war, current nuclear in korea, pakistan and iran,
etc

Tuchman's book (Stilwell biography) has Miles book in the bibliography
but in the body has nothing from his book. She sort of respins Army
giving china to the communists ... that Marshall believed that he needed
Soviets to beat Japan (after the end of war in Germany) ... and so to
appeal to the Soviets, US was giving support to the Chinese
communists. In Manchuria there was 1.5M soviets fighting 1M Japanese. By
comparison okinawa, US had 600k fighting 76k japanese.

However, Miles has Army supporting communists long before the end of
european war and any encouragement for the Soviets to come into the
Japanese war.

Milton also references that there were some number of Chinese Army units
that cooperated with the Japanese ... and towards the end they tried to
come over to the nationalist but the US Army vetoed it, so they went
over to the communists. It was these army units that fought the US in
the Korean war.

Marshall was then SECSTATE (47-49)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marshall
and they turned out a paper trying to absolve State for giving China to
the communists
https://archive.org/details/VanSlykeLymanTheChinaWhitePaper1949

and recent reference to "Is Harvard responsible for the rise of Putin"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#14 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983

perpetual war posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex