However, we had no strategy that would win the WAR. We could win every battle, at tremendous cost, but we could never win the war. We were losing 500 guys a week with NO chance of bringing the war to a successful conclusion. The Soviets and Chinese were bleeding us white without losing any of their own people. I maintain that the USA could never possibly have won the war in Vietnam. All North Vietnam had to do was keep having babies and sending them South. All USSR and China had to do was to keep sending them supplies. Eventually we would have to pull out.

A major difference with Iraq is that there is no nearby huge supporting country that we dare not invade.