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An Interview With General William C Westmoreland
An Interview With General William C Westmoreland
by Larry Englemann of the The Washington Post Magazine, 2-9-86 "By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for So. Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they? Napoleon wrote that on the battlefield, morale is to materiel as three is to one. And sometimes it is even more important-four to one or five to one. And Cong- was cutting into both the morale and the materiel for the South Vietnamese. "I talked with President Ford about this problem. But he said there was nothing he could do about it. He said he just did not have the political clout to get Congress to reconsider the Case-Church Amendment. "I retired from the Army in the summer of '72. And about that time I wrote an editorial for the New York Times..." http://members.aol.com/usaheroes/wcw3.htm --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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