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...visit to Germany last month, Army Chief of Staff General William C. Westmoreland offered some cheering words to U.S. troops. "You are now the first priority in my book," he told a Seventh Army unit at Gelnhausen. Such reassurance came none too soon for the Seventh, which stayed on in Europe at the end of World War II and has served for more than two decades as the bulwark of NATO's ground troops. With a strength of approximately 180,000 men, the Seventh will soon be the largest U.S. force overseas; troop strength in Viet...
...Westmoreland asked for 175,000 troops, then he increased that figure by 100,000 in July 1965. Within five months, he upped to 443,000, and to 542,000 in January 1966. According to the Pentagon analysts, Westmoreland had failed to realize that the Communists would match the U.S. buildup. Westmoreland predicted in 1965 that within two years the U.S. would win the war. USING MUSCLE ON KY. After Diem's overthrow, the U.S. was frustrated by governmental instability and continued political factionalism in Saigon. The breaking point came in May 1966 when Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, then...
WARNINGS OF DOMESTIC CRISIS. In March 1968, as President Johnson pondered Westmoreland's request for an additional 205,000 troops, which would have brought U.S. force levels in South Viet Nam to more than 700,000, one Pentagon official warned the White House that continued escalation of the war would result in "a domestic crisis of unprecedented proportions." Contended Paul Warnke, then Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs: "It will be difficult to convince critics that we are not destroying South Viet Nam in order to 'save it' and that we genuinely want peace talks...
...cloaked and confusing that Ambassador Taylor cabled Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "I badly need a clarification of our purposes and objectives." Taylor was especially angry at the fact that though he had sharply opposed the introduction of more U.S. troops into the area, his ostensible subordinate, General William Westmoreland, had been assigned an airborne brigade without Taylor's knowledge...
...treatment of an ally was Taylor's schoolmaster scolding of a group of young South Vietnamese generals, including Nguyen Cao Ky and Nguyen Van Thieu, after they had dismissed the civilian High National Council. Said Taylor: "Do all of you understand English? I told you all clearly at General Westmoreland's dinner we Americans were tired of coups. Apparently I wasted my words. Now you have made a real mess. We cannot carry you forever if you do things like this." Taylor's irritation seemed justified, but, as General Nguyen Khanh said last week, "He was convoking...