In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

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.