While the military was unarguably in decline in terms of discipline and professionalism, it still successfully performed on the battlefield. During more than ten years the military never lost a major military engagement often overcoming great disparities in numbers as at Ia Drang and Khe San. The overall failure to achieve national foreign policy objectives was less due to the military’s inability to perform and more due to an imbalance in the employment of elements of national power, particularly that of
While the military was unarguably in decline in terms of discipline and professionalism, it still successfully performed on the battlefield. During more than ten years the military never lost a major military engagement often overcoming great disparities in numbers as at Ia Drang and Khe San. The overall failure to achieve national foreign policy objectives was less due to the military’s inability to perform and more due to an imbalance in the employment of elements of national power, particularly that of