[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The outcome of battles during a war is not important, except for the strategic advantage that might be gained from a victory. Remember that the Spartans technically lost the battle of Thermopylae even though the fact they fought the battle held up the Persians long enough for the Greeks to rally and eventually win the war.

The US lost the Vietnam war, not because they were defeated militarily, but because they were defeated politically by internal defeatists who took their inspiration from demoralizing pro-communist propaganda (do a youtube search for Yuri Bezmenov for more on the subject of the effects and aims of communist propaganda).
America must be the only country in the world to have lost a war as the result of a resounding military victory when they crushed the Tet Offensive, which was erroneously reported as an American military defeat by the likes of Cronkite and other liberal journalists...

[oh8eleven]

America must be the only country in the world to have lost a war as the result of a resounding military victory when they crushed the Tet Offensive, which was erroneously reported as an American military defeat by the likes of Cronkite and other liberal journalists...
Agreed, and I know first hand we kicked their @ss, because I was up on the DMZ doing the kicking. IMO, we "lost" the war for three reasons:
The North knew they were defeated in 1968, but decided to make the war a war of attrition, and then used the anti-war scumbags here in the US for support.
The Democrats voted down all funding for it.
The North violated the 1973 Treaty of Paris and invaded the South - twice. They got their butts kicked the first time - but finally prevailed the second.