Reply To: Historical and Modern Wargaming – Where the "Fluff" is Real Life

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@phaidknott – that’s actually not a bad idea at all.  Makes sense, given how often people compare the “mixed insurgency” of the American Revolution to more modern asymmetrical conflicts – The Continental Army and local / state militias can in some ways be compared to the NVA and Viet Cong, for example, with American Loyalists being compared to ARVN force in Vietnam.  A large part of why the British shifted focus south after Saratoga was an effort to leverage more Loyalists support and war burden (broadly comparable to America’s “Vietnamization” program) – largely because the “imperial” power was more worried about larger international threats (British vs. France, Spain, and Netherlands, the Americans vs. the Soviet Union and China)?