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?Defeating an enemy on the battlefield and winning a war are rarely synonymous. Winning a war calls for more than defeating one?s enemy in battle.? He recalled that, in 1975, when Harry G. Summers, an Army colonel who later wrote a history of the Vietnam War, told a North Vietnamese colonel, ?You never defeated us on the battlefield,? the colonel replied, ?That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.?
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