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When Harry told him, "You know, you never beat us on the battlefield," Colonel Tu responded, "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant." As the North Vietnamese forces started to converge on Saigon in April 1975, the Americans slowly withdrew all their remaining personnel.

"You know you never defeated us on the battlefield," said the American colonel. The North VIetnamese colonel pondered the remark for a moment. "That may be so," he relpied. "but it is also irrelevant." Conversation between Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., US Army, and Colonel Tu, North Vietnamese Army, Hanoi, April 1975. Quoted in

On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War.

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On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War is a 1982 book by Harry G. Summers Jr., a U.S. Army colonel and Vietnam War veteran, that applies Clausewitzian principles of war to dissect American strategic shortcomings in the conflict.

Again it is a charge that cannot survive the truth. “You know you never beat us on the battlefield,” I told my North Vietnamese Army (NVA) counterpart, Colonel Tu, during a meeting in Hanoi a week before the fall of Saigon. “That may be so,” he replied, “but it is also irrelevant.”

Col. Harry G. Summers Jr. begins his book, On Strategy: The Vietnam War in Context, by relaying the following conversation: “‘You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,’ said the American colonel.

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Exchange regarding the Vietnam War between U.S. Army Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. and North Vietnamese Colonel Tu in April 1975, just before the fall of Saigon.