An insightful opinion piece on the current war in Afghanistan with significant connections to the Vietnam War.
After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, U.S. Col. Harry Summers remarked to his North Vietnamese counterpart, “You know you never defeated us on the battlefield.” After a moment, the North Vietnamese officer replied: “That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.”
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Now there is a truism of the modoern asymetrical age!
It kind of downgrade the tradirtional need for deciciveness on the battlefield.
It is because of how America wanted to forget the Vietnam War and all its lessons that I am considering studying the conflict.