John F. Gilbey > Quotes

“And in the end we lost our butt. We lost because the guerilla theory of the Viet Cong rested on a stronger base than our massive injections of men and material. The Viet Cong out-suffered and out-fought us. Their dead left little debris on the trails and battlefields and beyond their bodies and occasionally some poerty; ours strewed cigarettes and condoms. The only solace is that we were wrong and lost. It could have been worse — we could have been right and lost. But, mind you, if we'd been right, we wouldn't have lost.”
― John F. Gilbey, The Way of a Warrior: A Journey into Secret Worlds of Martial Arts