Today, the nearly bankrupt United States is spending hundreds of billons annually waging small wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and the Sahara.
今天,濒临破产的美国,每年在阿富汗,伊拉克,索马里,也门,以及撒哈拉的小型的战争中花掉几百亿美金。
Decades after expunging the idea of "small wars" from their textbooks after the trauma of Vietnam, American officers are relearning the lessons the hard way.
美国在越南饱受创伤之后,花了几十年从教科书上删去了“小战争”的概念,但美国的军官正困难地重学教训。
From Cyprus, through the Balkans and into the former Soviet Union, a string of nasty small wars have been settled not through peace deals but simply by freezing each side's positions.
从塞浦路斯,穿过巴尔干半岛再到前苏联,一连串讨厌的小冲突不是通过和平协议,而是通过简单的冻结双方立场解决的。
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