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...miles from Kontum. The post was defended by 1,300 allied soldiers; most of them were civilian irregulars, reinforced by a U.S. Marine artillery platoon and an element of the U.S. 196th Light Infantry Brigade. Kham Due shaped up as the kind of set-piece battle that General William Westmoreland yearned for in the early days of the massive U.S. presence in Viet Nam, when so much of his military force was expended in fruitless hunts for an enemy refusing to stand and fight. But now set-piece battles are not welcome in Washington, because of the high rate...
After four years in Viet Nam, more than three as commander of all American forces there, General William Childs Westmoreland, 54, is about to return to Washington to become Army Chief of Staff. Leaving Viet Nam with the reluctance of any commander who would like to see a campaign through to its end, Westmoreland is also disturbed by the fact that his conduct of the war has been questioned more since the Communists' Tet offensive than at any other time during his tour of duty. In an interview last week with TIME Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, he reviewed...
...mucky situation such as we now have in Viet Nam. You just can't decide for a general where and when he will bomb or how he will attack. These are his valuable resources which spell success or defeat; timing is crucial. It's surprising that Westmoreland has done so well under the circumstances. And good luck to you, General Creighton Abrams...
...Westmoreland and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker read the ledger, the U.S. position looks encouraging-and the Pentagon insists that the readings do not represent the sort of optimism that flowed all too easily before the shock of Tet. As the military experts see it, the Communists took crippling losses in the 40,000 of their soldiers killed during the Tet campaign and the 15,000 chewed up during their disastrous siege of the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh (see box). The Tet onslaughts failed to topple Thieu's government, failed to shatter ARVN, and, in fact, left it with...
Guerrilla at the Point. As a result, peace talks or not, General Abrams is certain to encounter considerably more heavy fighting in the South when he takes over from Westmoreland. Fortunately for the U.S., intensive fighting is an art at which Abrams has long demonstrated both instinctive mastery and uncommon zeal. Born in Feeding Hills, Mass., the son of a repairman on the Boston & Albany railroad, Creighton Abrams grew up learning to drill tin cans with a rifle, raising baby beef as a 4-H farm boy, and driving around in his Model T. In high school he was both...