Wasn't the lesson of Vietnam, that the "war at home", the battle for the hearts and minds of the TV audience, was far more important than any reality troops fac

Wasn't the lesson of Vietnam, that the "war at home", the battle for the hearts and minds of the TV audience, was far more important than any reality troops faced? See "Kill counts" and then everything up to recent headlines about which missile was shot down by whom and "this wasn't combat" but that over there a few hundred miles, that was.