Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon

By Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs. Posted April 18, 2006.

A Maoist 'people's war' versus a communal civil war: the dangers of looking at U.S. policy in Iraq through the lens of Vietnam.

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Stephen Biddle is a Senior Fellow in Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Military Power.

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