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" You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours,' he warned them, 'but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win. "
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the ... - Page 35
by H. R. McMaster - 1998 - 480 pages
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Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of ...

Yuen Foong Khong - History - 1992 - 296 pages
...the three factors. What Ho Chi Minh told the French in the 1940s is also applicable to the Americans: "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours and even at this odds, you will lose and 1 will win."105 If the communists' desire for reunification...
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1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of ...

Charles Kaiser - Fiction - 1988 - 362 pages
...time — at least in New Hampshire — McCarthy seems to have been right."41 4 Tet: The Turning Point "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of...yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." — Ho Chi Minh to the French occupying Indochina1 "I'm absolutely certain that whereas in 1965...
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Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, revised edition

Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Steven E. Miller - Political Science - 2001 - 516 pages
...of gravity" and adopt their strategies accordingly. Ho Chi Minh famously warned the United States: "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of...yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win."86 Somali militia leader Mohammed Farah Aideed echoed this view to US Ambassador Robert Oakley:...
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The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military ...

Daniel Byman, Matthew Waxman - Political Science - 2002 - 302 pages
...pressure point: its political will to sustain operations. Ho Chi Minh famously warned the United States: "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of...yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." 37 The implication, of course, was that the United States could not maintain a policy in the...
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On the Offensive: The Australian Army in the Vietnam War, January 1967-June 1968

Ian McNeill, Ashley Ekins - History - 2003 - 690 pages
...accepted with the same kind of stoicism displayed by Ho Chi Minh in his earlier taunts to the French: 'You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of...yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win'. 1-The North Vietnamese leader had also proclaimed the determination of the Vietnamese communists...
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Australia's Battlefields in Viet Nam: A Traveller's Guide

Gary McKay - History - 2003 - 250 pages
...determined to unite their country as an independent nation that Ho Chi Minh once declared, 'You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.' Tragically for Viet Nam, it was prophetically true. The Viet Minh forces of the DRV waged a guerilla...
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Living the Brand: How to Transform Every Member of Your Organization Into a ...

Nicholas Ind - Business & Economics - 2004 - 232 pages
...assumptions. This proved the war was being won, despite Ho Chi Minh's warning to the French in 1946 that 'You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at these odds you will lose and I will win.' A new model Once we move away from abstract thinking we come...
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Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States

Vincent Virga, Alan Brinkley - United States - 2004 - 428 pages
...have waited over a century, he -aid. and we can wait some mon — five years, ten years, fitly \ear-. "You can kill ten of my men For every one I kill of \ our-, liul even ill lli'ir odds. Mm will lo-e and I will win. It look lidlion- nl dollars, \ears...
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Covenant Betrayed: Revelations of the Sixties, the Best of Time; the Worst ...

Mark Dahl - Political Science - 2005 - 440 pages
...Phyllis, Chris' face wrinkled, silent tears flowed down his cheek. CHAPTER 8 You can kill ten of ray men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win. Ho Chin Minh President Nixon, prepared for his inauguration and the country waited and hoped for...
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Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004

Hendrik Hertzberg - Political Science - 2005 - 724 pages
...their leader, had made that calculation plain to the French as they braced for war in the late 1940s. 'You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours,' he warned them, 'but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.' " William Broyles, Jr., who...
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