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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Missed a big one
	Date:	8/31/2009 3:27:11 PM

That is true and Johnson said "if I've lost Cronkite, I've lost the country".

But, I don't know that I agree with you that Tet was an overwhelming victory for the US. I've read a lot of books on Viet Nam and almost all have agreed that it was a turning point for the war. Given the way the war was being fought and the rules we were fighting under, I have concluded that we could not win VN.
We were holding onto the idea that if we had overwhelming air support that we would automatically win.

I think the evidence pretty much show that the US has not done well in guerilla warfare. When you consider that at the time of Viet Nam, we were still using tactics that were developed under a "European conflict" mindset by the planners, it's not surprising.

It's really taken until just now that the planners are getting their heads around the small urban conflict -- Patreus is considered to be a "radical" thinker and it is his theories that current warfare is being planned around. A light, elite force. You notice we're not designing new tanks and such; the force of the future will rely heavily on sensor weaponry and UAVs.

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Media Bias? - Yankee06 - 8/31/2009 2:26:45 AM

Media Bias? - Talullahhound - 8/31/2009 6:45:48 AM

PS - Talullahhound - 8/31/2009 7:13:06 AM

Missed a big one - MartiniMan - 8/31/2009 12:17:10 PM

Media Bias-continued - Yankee06 - 8/31/2009 12:44:01 PM

Media Bias-continued - MartiniMan - 8/31/2009 12:56:56 PM

Missed a big one - Talullahhound - 8/31/2009 3:27:11 PM

Missed a big one - MartiniMan - 8/31/2009 4:07:56 PM

Missed a big one - Yankee06 - 8/31/2009 5:07:55 PM

Y-06.......... - rude evin - 8/31/2009 8:42:45 PM

Missed a big one - MartiniMan - 9/1/2009 9:37:27 AM

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