Some experts see parallels between the Afghan strategy debate and the escalation of U.S.involvement in the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

In France,Mr.Zardari took a swipe at the West's strategy in Afghanistan, telling French media the war against the Taliban is being lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

And McChrystal himself told Rolling Stone that he had felt "betrayed" by U.S.ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry in a debate over war strategy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

The danger is that each time they clash, even by proxy, they risk turning strategy into war.

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Bush told his National Security Council staff, as one of them recalled it, that he feared that if the U.S. did not change its strategy the war would be lost.

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But the truth is that for the better part of the last several decades, with occasional important exceptions, this sort of "half pregnant" strategy for war fighting has been the template for Western armies.

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