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William Childs Westmoreland byl americký generál, který velel americkým vojenským operacím během války ve Vietnamu v letech 1964 až 1968, které vyvrcholily během Ofenzívy Tet.

Později v letech 1968 až 1972 sloužil jako náčelník generálního štábu armády USA. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. březen 1914 – 18. červenec 2005
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“Several weeks before General Patton died in a command car accident in 1945, he visited my headquarters at Ingolstadt. Over lunch he remarked on a recent visit he had made to the United States where the press had castigated him for referring to the Nazis as a political party "like Republicans or Democrats". "Westy," he told me solemnly, "don't forget when you return to the States, be careful what you say. No matter what, they'll put it in the newspapers." It seemed remote advice at the time for a young, inauspicious colonel, but I was to have ample reason in later years to reflect on his counsel.”

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William Westmoreland kniha A Soldier Reports

Zdroj: A Soldier Reports (1976), p. 22.

“Ignoring the restrictions which the United States imposed upon itself in conducting the war in Indochina, some observers have seen in the outcome some special military genius on the side of North Vietnam. They have in large measure attributed that alleged genius to my apparent counterpart, Vo Nyugen Giap. In reality, Giap was hardly my counterpart, for my position was never so exalted as Giap's. While he was apparently an influential member of his country's government, I was a field commander restricted to decisions and actions within the boundaries of South Vietnam, subject to the dictates of my country's government, and influential in policy matters only to the extent that Washington chose to act on my recommendations. Yet since Giap was for long his own field commander, there was enough direct confrontation between the two of us to enable me to some degree to analyze and judge his military performance.”

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William Westmoreland kniha A Soldier Reports

Zdroj: A Soldier Reports (1976), p. 404.

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