“You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,” said the American colonel. The North Vietnamese colonel pondered this remark a moment. “That may be so,” he replied, “but it is also irrelevant.”

—Col Harry G. Summers Jr and Col Tu, April 1975

“You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,” said the American colonel. The North Vietnamese colonel pondered this remark a moment. “That may be so,” he replied, “but it is also irrelevant.”

—Col Harry G. Summers Jr and Col Tu, April 1975

 

That's a good quote- I might put that in the TV Tropes entry on the Vietnam War.