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To: craig crawford who wrote (148353)9/30/2002 6:42:50 PM
From: Alomex  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 164684
 
the united states never lost a major battle in the vietnam war.

This is a misinterpretation of the nature of war, fostered by no less than the Pentagon. Wars are lost when one side says "enough", regardless if that party is winning or losing in the battlefield.

To be clear, each side has their own predetermined pain threshold and whoever pushes the enemy past it first, wins.

The Vietnamese generals knew that their people were determined to fight longer and harder than Americans and designed a strategy to that end. This was proper military strategy by the Vietnamese, even if they had 20 casualties for every American one.



To: craig crawford who wrote (148353)10/1/2002 2:41:32 PM
From: GST  Respond to of 164684
 
The Vietnamese had something the US could not defeat -- they were willing to die for their country. The only solution would be to kill them all and, while that was within our means, it would have opened the door to war by mass murder if we killed them all -- even though it could very easily be done. Given our lack of political will to kill every last man, woman and child north of Da Nang, our fighting skills did not matter very much.


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