[U S Army EOD]

The total problem was in my opinion, over-confidence.

We did it again in Vietnam. This is one thing that Johnson and his advisors could never understand about the Vietnamese. He really believed the John Wayne movies. He never could understand why the NVA wouldn't just lay down and quit when they heard we were coming. He just couldn't comprehend that in order to beat them we had to kill them.

[SAMWolf]

"The war is almost over" fever.

Trouble is, it's not over until all the bad guys are dead.

Over confidence caused the surprise in the Bulge, the signs were there, no one wanted to believe them, same thing happened in Korea.