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" You know you never defeated us on the battlefield, " said the American colonel. "The North Vietnamese colonel pondered this remark a moment. That may be so, "he replied, "but it is also irrelevant". "
Beyond Declaring Victory and Coming Home: The Challenges of Peace and ...
edited by - 2000 - 264 pages
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Department of Defense Appropriations, Part 6

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1990 - 980 pages
...Delegation, Four Party Joint Military Team and Colonel Tu, Chief, North Vietnamese (DRV) Delegation: "You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,...moment. That may be so, "he replied, "but it is also irrelevant". ARMY FORCE MODERNIZATION - AN OVERVIEW To this point my comments have been intended to...
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Department of Defense appropriations for fiscal year 1990: hearings before a ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense - 1990 - 982 pages
...Delegation, Four Party Joint Military Team and Colonel Tu, Chief, North Vietnamese (DRV) Delegation: "You know you never defeated us on the battlefield, " said the American colonel. 556 ARMY FORCE MODERNIZATION - AN OVERVIEW To this point my comments have been intended to provide...
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Department of Defense appropriations for fiscal year 1990: hearings before a ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense - 1990 - 980 pages
...Delegation; Four Party Joint Military Team and Colonel Tu. Chief, North Vietnamese (DRV) Delegation: 'You know you never defeated us on the battlefield....moment. "That may be so, "he replied, "but it is also irrelevant*. ARMY FORCE MODERNIZATION - AN OVERVIEW To this point my comment! have been Intended to...
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Review of the War Powers Resolution: Hearings Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations - 1991 - 352 pages
...this process, recounts this conversation with a North Vietnamese Colonel in Hanoi in April of 1975: "You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,"...moment. "That may be so," he replied, "but it is also irrelevant."48 Both men were in my view right. In contemplating this congressional achievement, it...
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Review of the War Powers Resolution: Hearings Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations - 1991 - 356 pages
...this process, recounts this conversation with a North Vietnamese Colonel in Hanoi in April of 1975: "You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,"...moment. "That may be so," he replied, "but it is also irrelevant"41 Both men were in my view right. In contemplating this congressional achievement, it is...
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The Clausewitzian Dictum and the Future of Western Military Strategy

Gert C. de Nooy - 1997 - 196 pages
...you never defeated us on the battlefield', the American colonel Summers said to a North Vietnamese colonel. The North Vietnamese colonel pondered this...remark a moment. 'That may be so', he replied, 'but is also irrelevant'. 19 Any victory has first and foremost a political rather than a military significance....
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Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia

Arnold R. Isaacs - 1999 - 580 pages
...officer, "You know you never defeated us on the battlefield." The Communist officer considered for a moment. "That may be so," he replied, "but it is also irrelevant." Whatever damage it did to itself, the US military leadership's worst blunder may have...
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The 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam: 35 Personal ...

Jean Shellenbarger - 2000 - 248 pages
...Vietnam]. As the quote states in Harry Summers' book [On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War]: "You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,"...moment. "That may be so," he replied, "but it is also irrelevant." (Conversation in Hanoi, April 1975) Ed Whitaker, PFC, Headquarters Company, December 1966-October...
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Eleven Bravo: A Skytrooper’s Memoir of War in Vietnam

E. Tayloe Wise - 2010 - 294 pages
...couldn't beat the NVA into submission. Col. Harry G. Summers recounted a most apropos conversation: "You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,"...moment. "That may be so," he replied, "but it is also irrelevant."* Our nation felt guilty, and it took its wrath out on the losers— its returning servicemen....
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The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century

Robert J. Lieber - 2005 - 276 pages
...was later captured in an exchange between an American colonel and his North Vietnamese counterpart: "You know you never defeated us on the battlefield," said the American. The North Vietnamese replied, "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant."24 In the contemporary Arab...
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