Word: battlefield
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...even by the enemy. U.S. Army Colonel Harry Summers Jr., who considers Viet Nam "a tactical success and a strategic failure," was in Hanoi on a negotiating mission a few days before Saigon fell. Summers recalls telling a North Vietnamese colonel, "You know, you never defeated us on the battlefield." The foe's reply: "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant." In essence, the U.S. was outlasted by an enemy that proved able and willing to fight longer than America and its South Vietnamese allies...
...politician might have had enough doubts about South Viet Nam's survival to start shifting blame to others for having "lost" an ally. Hawks like Nixon assailed doves for cutting military aid. The doves replied that they were facing up to the reality of the hawks' failure on the battlefield...
...suggests that these dissidents were viewed as dangerous nationalists. In justifying his claim that he "won the war" but that Congress lacked the will to honor its commitments and so "lost the peace," Nixon contends that his Vietnamization program was a success both in the hamlets and on the battlefield. His assertion that a pro-Western Viet Nam represented a vital U.S. security interest relies less on inherent economic or geopolitical advantages than on the domino theory: he points to Hanoi's present control of Cambodia and Laos and its steady pressure on Thailand. He acknowledges that the cease-fire...
...Basra, Iraq's second city. When the Iraqis eventually counterattacked with heavy concentrations of armor and artillery, the Iranians dug in and fought back. That they had put up a valiant struggle was demonstrated by the burned- out hulks of Iraqi tanks and armored personnel carriers littering the battlefield. The Iranian infantry, although well armed, carried little more than automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades and had hardly any air or artillery support. After two days of stalemate, the Iraqis broke through and punched toward the east, forcing the remaining Iranians back to the shores of the marshes...
...seems invigorated by the new challenge. His oxfords glisten with the kind of shine only a former Marine lieutenant colonel can give them. He's charging uphill, the way he did at Okinawa. "No school solutions here," he has muttered to intimates in the White House, invoking a Marine battlefield lament when they faced situations never covered in training. "Some say I can't really succeed in this political environment, and maybe they are right," he once mused. He does not believe that at all. He'll win, or fall among piled-up corpses...