[credit_guy]

> Do we need to study war?[...] We basically won every fight.

The study of war is not only about the tactics, how to win fights. It's also about what causes war, why conflicts arise, what the potential sources of instability are, what the alternatives to war are, etc.

Occupation is certainly part of the study of war. America was very good at that after WW2. Both the occupation of Germany and of Japan were extraordinarily successful. They could not have been so successful just by random chance.

[dragontamer]

Occupation of a developed country vs an undeveloped one is very different.

I continue to assert that the Philippines was the better example to Afghanistan. It was a bloody, multi-decade long insurrection in a much less developed nation (that was interrupted by WW2).