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Article: The surrender program.(Military Review Revisited)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This article from the Vietnam era is particularly relevant to resolving the insurgencies we are now encountering in Iraq and elsewhere. Amnesty is an emotionally charged issue: the anger and hatred generated by war are hard to forgive. Nevertheless, as we have seen in the Malayan Emergency, the El Salvador and Nicaragua conflicts of the 1970s-80s, and even our own Civil War, "wiping the slate clean" is essential for bringing a long, bitter conflict to an end This article describes two key elements of the slate-cleaning process: offering amnesty to insurgents, and developing a government ministry specifically to manage a national campaign of reconciliation. ...