Ia Drang – Where Battlefield Losses Convinced Ho, Giap and McNamara the U.S. Could Never Win By Joseph Galloway – History Net, Vietnam magazine – Posted 15 Feb 11
“…What happened when the American cavalrymen and the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) collided head-on in the Ia Drang had military and civilian leaders in Washington, Saigon and Hanoi scrambling to assess what it meant, and what had been learned.
“Both sides understood that the war had changed suddenly and dramatically in those few days. At higher levels, both sides claimed victory in the Ia Drang, although those who fought and bled and watched good soldiers die all around them were loath to use so grand a word for something so tragic and terrible that would give people their nightmares for a long time, or a lifetime…”
Joe Galloway at 2008 Spur reunion - Pam Young photo
Read: McNamara Memo
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