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The U.S. has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself.
(spoken of the US approach to the Vietnam War) Bernard L. Montgomery

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The Montgomery quote is something of a myth. He did say something very like that, but he said it in 1962 in a speech to the House of Lords, he said "China" not "Asia," and he wasn't talking about Vietnam at all, especially considering that significant American involvement in Vietnam would not occur until the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. Here's the real quote: (http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1962/may/30/the-army-estimates#S5LV0241P0-00791)

The next war on land will be very different from the last one, in that we shall have to fight it in a different way. In reaching a decision on that matter, we must first be clear about certain rules of war. Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China". It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives, and an army fighting there would be engulfed by what is known as the Ming Bing, the people's insurgents.