Word: westmorelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary of the Army also dismissed a war-crime charge against Generals William Westmoreland and Creighton Abrams, the former and present U. S. commanders in Vietnam, which Torres had filed last October...
...deeply mired in Ho's country? Why is success so elusive? Those questions have tantalized David Halberstam since he returned in 1964 from 15 months in South Viet Nam as a New York Times reporter. The answer, essentially, is always the same: from John F. Kennedy to William Westmoreland to the freshest shavetail just off the jet at Bien Hoa, "They" underestimated Ho. That is to say, they failed to understand the Vietnamese, for in his own artfully complex personality, Ho was Viet...
...military leaders themselves, Stone suggested that the Vietnam war serve as an object lesson in how dumb the Joint Chiefs of Staff are. General Westmoreland, for years enthusiastic about fighting the war, was only "a boy scout who had been at Harvard Business School," he said...
...nearly three years since he was named top officer in Viet Nam, succeeding General William C. Westmoreland (now the Army's Chief of Staff), Abrams has presided over and shaped fundamental changes in the day-to-day tactics used to fight the Communists. Where Westmoreland was a search-and-destroy and count-the-bodies man, Abrams proved to be an interdict-andweigh-the-rice man. Where Westmoreland insisted on outnumbering the enemy three or four to one with massive, multibrigade maneuvers, Abrams matched battalion against battalion and brigade against brigade. If a unit made contact with the enemy, he hustled...
Font is charged, among other things, with failing to get the permission of the officer in charge before entering a building. Font said, "If I did this all the time I would have to get General Westmoreland's permission to enter the Pentagon...