Many commentators and analysts are claiming that the war in Afghanistan is being lost to the Taliban and that western forces are locked in another Vietnam, with ignominious withdrawal their only prospect. But in 1975, the same year the US left Vietnam, the UK defeated a communist insurgency in Dhofar province of Oman. The residual acts of terrorism were finally brought to an end in March 1980, nearly 15 years after the first shots were fired.

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