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William Childs Westmoreland – amerykański generał, od 1964 do 1968 dowódca wojsk amerykańskich w Wietnamie Południowym, od 1968 do 1972 szef Połączonych Sztabów Sił Zbrojnych USA. Człowiek Roku 1965 według magazynu „Time”. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Marzec 1914 – 18. Lipiec 2005
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William Westmoreland: Cytaty po angielsku

“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 książka A Soldier Reports

Źródło: 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 książka A Soldier Reports

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

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