 | Yuen Foong Khong - 1992 - 296 pagine
...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... | |
 | Charles Kaiser - 1988 - 362 pagine
...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... | |
 | Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Steven E. Miller - 2001 - 516 pagine
...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:... | |
 | Daniel Byman, Matthew Waxman - 2002 - 302 pagine
...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... | |
 | Ian McNeill, Ashley Ekins - 2003 - 690 pagine
...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... | |
 | Gary McKay - 2003 - 250 pagine
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Ind - 2004 - 232 pagine
...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... | |
 | Vincent Virga, Alan Brinkley - 2004 - 428 pagine
...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... | |
 | Mark Dahl - 2005 - 440 pagine
...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... | |
 | Hendrik Hertzberg - 2005 - 724 pagine
...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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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. 
