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How long can you go on claiming that a war is not "conventional"?

The Vietnam war started 60 years ago. The US military still struggles with the same guerilla tactics as in 1955.

Modern trench warfare using massed firearms, entrenched positions, and artillery arguably began in the mid-19th century (the American Civil War and the New Zealand Wars, for example). It wasn't until after the first World War that the major powers started treating it as an intractable problem.

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