In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
From William Westmoreland
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.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
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.
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
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