| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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