“We'll just go on bleeding them until Hanoi wakes up to the fact that they have bled their country to the point of national disaster.”

— William Westmoreland

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About William Westmoreland

Military General • American

General William Childs Westmoreland was a prominent United States Army general. He is best known for commanding U.S. forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968, a period of major troop escalation. His strategy of...

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