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position, in order to drive back the advancing attack. when he was wounded again, he refused evacuation. he worked side by side to organize the defense of the base with the vietnamese commander. major miley. who was here today, major, where are you? major, thank you for being here. thank you for your service. [ applause ] it s an hon honor to have you here. when the withdrawing soldiers were ambushed early on april 15th and many of the injured troops scattered, major duffy remained with those who were wounded, rallying them to make it to an established evacuation despite being con stabtly pursued by the vietkong.
especially given the recent history the biden administration seemed to get that dynamic really wrong in afghanistan? we always had a challenge gauging will to fight during my war, southeast asia, we profoundly underestimated the will to fight in the vietcong. fast forward 45 years, we profoundly underestimated the will to fight of the taliban. it s a different situation here, and the assessment was ahead of time that the ukrainians would fight and what we re seeing, notably through great reporting of cnn, is they are standing and fighting. and inspiringly so. so in this case, i think we called the shot correctly. when you were dni back in 2014, that was when russia annexed crimea. it was also part of ukraine before that. what s the difference between then and now when it comes to u.s. intelligence in the region?
foremost, but the state of intelligence with regard to these battlefields? dana, what it tells me, and i will acknowledge i m being a little defensive here, but there is the old song on intelligence about the difference between mysteries and secrets. secrets are knowable facts and mysteries maybe not. when you are trying to predict how military forces are going to perform once they get into hostilities, that s in the realm of mysteries. so we have never going back to my war, southeast asia, we have never done a very good job of assessing will to fight in advance. we have always underestimated the adversary, whether it was the vietcong or the taliban. here is another case of that where we didn t gauge the will to fight we thought the russians would do better and we weren t apparently very confident in the ukrainians.
Mountain passes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail could be shut down and large areas of forest blown down by tactical nukes very effectively, but only until the Vietnamese cleared new paths.