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Quotes by William Westmoreland

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.
– William Westmoreland
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
– William Westmoreland
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
– William Westmoreland
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
– William Westmoreland
War is fear cloaked in courage.
– William Westmoreland
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
– William Westmoreland
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
– William Westmoreland
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
– William Westmoreland
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
– William Westmoreland
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
– 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.
– William Westmoreland