3 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Did the Viet Cong Defeat Us?
Harlan Ullman writes that U.S. military technology 'wasn't able to defeat the guerilla warfare of North Vietnam' (Letters, Aug. 9). As a veteran of those battles, I respectfully object. The guerilla tactics of the Viet Cong died in their Tet Offensive, defeated by American fighters. The remaining warfare was a conventional invasion of the South by the North Vietnamese Army—after the U.S. withdrew the Air Force that would have stopped it. Witness the pictures of North Vietnamese tanks in the streets of Saigon.
Lt. Col. Richard Savage USAF (Ret.)
