William Westmoreland

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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.


— William Westmoreland


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War is fear cloaked in courage.


— William Westmoreland


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I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.


— William Westmoreland


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As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.


— William Westmoreland


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By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?


— William Westmoreland


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I don't take criticism lying down.


— William Westmoreland


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Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.


— William Westmoreland


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I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.


— William Westmoreland


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I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.


— William Westmoreland


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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.


— William Westmoreland


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By his own admission by early 1969 I think he had lost what a half million soldiers? He reported this. S. William Childs Westmoreland (March 26 1914 – July 18 2005) was a United States Army General who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak (1964–68) during the Tet Offensive.

He adopted a strategy of attrition against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army. S. He later served as U.