The Protracted Conflict: I’ll Tell You a Secret

There is a boom market in secrets this winter, and I have decided it is the right time to go public with one of mine. I share this particular secret with a lot of people—so many as to make it amazing that it has been so well kept so long. I guess the others are like me in just not liking to talk about it.

I won’t try to prolong the suspense. Here it is, then, in a single sentence: The United States has lost the war in Indochina, has been defeated.