I agree with one part of Wolf's assessment of the Vietnam War. His statement, "U.S. forces soundly beat the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in virtually every large-scale encounter" was probably correct.
Unfortunately, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong weren't polite enough to make the war a series of large-scale tests of military might. In a guerrilla war, our tanks and bombs were no match for booby-trapped bicycles and snipers in trees.
