In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.