William Westmoreland Quotes

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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

  War, Believe, Men

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

  William Westmoreland

  Peace, Fear, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  William Westmoreland

  Confused, Silly, Thinking

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• Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

  William Westmoreland

  Country, Television, Instruments

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• Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Vietnam, Engagement

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• This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

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  Military, War, Character

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• They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

  William Westmoreland

  Women, Believe, Impossible Things

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• We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.

  William Westmoreland

  Views, Important, Ends

  General William C. Westmoreland (2015). “The Vietnam War: The History of America's Conflict in Southeast Asia”, p.167, Pavilion Books

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• War is fear cloaked in courage.

  William Westmoreland

  Peace, Military, War

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• I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.

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  Real, Communication, Surveillance

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• We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

  William Westmoreland

  War, Winning, Succeed

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• When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

  William Westmoreland

  Inspiring, Memories, Military

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• 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.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Offensive, Made

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• We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

  William Westmoreland

  Peace, War, Age

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• The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

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  Ideas, Vietnam, Politician

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

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  Senior, Public Opinion, Vietnam

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• I don't take criticism lying down.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Lying, Criticism

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• Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Tv News, Cameras

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• My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had

  William Westmoreland

  Jobs, War, Wife

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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

  Summer, Vietnam, Impossible

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• The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, People

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• When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

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  Vietnam, Care, Mail

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• It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

  William Westmoreland

  Running, Hanoi, Operations

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

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Asia, Communist

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• The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Names, Memorial

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