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Originally Posted by Chas H
I don't know how you came to that conclusion, or how that conclusion relates to Cronkite's pronouncement shortly after Tet the war was unwinnable.
It was apparent by 1970 the NVA was willing to take heavy casualties, but there was no such evidence in early '68.
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That would be from a study of Vietnamese history. They'd been fighting off the superior numbers of the Chinese for around a 1,000 years. They persisted against the French and heavy odds for quite a while, decades and then the last war - '46 to '54.
And then there was Ho's declaration, which I'm pretty sure we knew about early on, that they could and would, if need be, lose 10 to our 1 and still go on.
They had nowhere else to go. Our guys had the luxury of knowing they would, or might rather, go home oneday. Their backs were against the wall, ours weren't.