I hate to use these examples but Ho Chi Minh won because he and his people NEVER GAVE UP no matter how many tons of bombs we dropped. Re-watch or read the end of Apocalypse now - the difference between them and us was the commitment. He talked about a ville where the US had come through and vaccinated the children against smallpox. And the viet cong came through that same night and cut off every arm of every child that had been vaccinated. And he said they loved their children just as much as we did but they were willing to do ANYTHING to resist the enemy (us) including leaving a tragic pile of severed arms for the Americans to find the next day.