It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

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.