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" Enemy morale has not been broken—he apparently has adjusted to our stopping his drive for military victory and has adopted a strategy of keeping us busy and waiting us out (a strategy of attriting our national will). He knows that we have not been, and he believes we probably will not be, able to translate our military successes into the ‘end products’—broken enemy morale and political achievements by the GVN [government of Vietnam]. "

Mark Bowden , Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam


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Mark Bowden quote : Enemy morale has not been broken—he apparently has adjusted to our stopping his drive for military victory and has adopted a strategy of keeping us busy and waiting us out (a strategy of attriting our national will). He knows that we have not been, and he believes we probably will not be, able to translate our military successes into the ‘end products’—broken enemy morale and political achievements by the GVN [government of Vietnam].